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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 06:56:10 +1100 (EST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Danny=20Smith?= <danny_r_smith_2001 AT yahoo DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: RE:size limit for static arrays in cygwin/gcc
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"Charles D. Russell" <worwor at bellsouth dot net> wrote:

>    Meanwhile, I am trying to find an equivalent problem in C so that it will
> get more attention.  Unfortunately, I don't know much C.  The subsequent
> program fails with a segmentation violation if one tries to allocate more
> than a few Mb of memory on either my old or my new system.  Why?  What limit
> am I bumping into?
> 
>

By default stack reserve is set to 2MB by ld.exe.  Try setting stack reserve
higher, eg,
 -Wl,--stack=0x2000000
will get you 32MB stack reserve

Danny

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