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On 9/13/2019 9:21 AM, Blair, Charles E III wrote:
> Thank you very much for your help.  Moving the big array to a global variable made the problem go away.
> Before that, I tried
> 
> ulimit -Ss 8192
> 
> After this, the segmentation error message was still there.

I tried that too.  The failure seems to happen in chkstk_ms,
some assembly code in cygwin.S.  Perhaps Corrina or someone
can clarify if the behavior is correct, or at least explain
it.

Regards - Eliot Moss

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