X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=K7gsAKbNgrwjMUTP /NiHlBKlsxnVsoDQfg7fCO8BUaBlhi14hqp7WpJ3286tmShykIe2iws2f/6Q6/0n JncfqbEclJulac+Mazrk8mFfKs7vJZuXeRSFsQSNZeHzW3gz3FkFBFpOgaupEY0K RwVoFCmJ5Jm3bXS94hkFATnLV80= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:reply-to:subject:to:references:from:message-id :date:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=QUiAkeQfNBn98aYhoUcR0b dxRa4=; b=puoddS8S7cJ4xlR4nX/+7Ah+OGfhqHF83QMrGlf8Dbn3xxAjqxvknh otkSzvRF/bDfIYdCACyOT/nOounSvWLsj6UJFTQT1YGs9o1nnGuY4Vg33ubqCZ2e TxWI3payKtnIiFZzjfedudOCZ41RN1lWWenEEm61z1FT1KykHmoaU= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=ASBESTOS_BODY,AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.1 spammy=III, suit, charles, bg X-HELO: mailsrv.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: moss AT cs DOT umass DOT edu Subject: Re: My C arrays are too large To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <87ftl0jb1i DOT fsf AT Rainer DOT invalid> From: Eliot Moss Message-ID: Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:40:47 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 9/18/2019 4:35 PM, Jose Isaias Cabrera wrote: > > Joel Rees, on Wednesday, September 18, 2019 02:38 PM, wrote... >> >> 2019年9月14日(土) 3:50 Jose Isaias Cabrera, on >>Moss >>> Achim Gratz, on Friday, September 13, 2019 02:39 PM, wrote... >>>> >>>> Blair, Charles E III writes: >>>>> My apologies for failing to reply on-list. I don't know how :( >>>>> >>>>> My machine is 64 bit, and I hope I installed the correct version of >>> cygwin. >>>>> >>>>> This program: >>>>> >>>>> #include >>>>> int main(){char *a[50][8192]; >>>>> return 0;} >>>>> >>>>> compiles with gcc (no special options) but gives "Segmentation fault". >>>> >>>> You are creating an automatic variable that's larger than the default >>>> stack. You need to enlarge the stack, either during link time or later >>>> e.g. via >>>> >>>> peflags -x0x800000 a.out >>> >>> This is great! Thanks. >>> >>> But, let's talk about this a bit... Shouldn't the compiler provide some >>> warning, and also, it should never blow up with a "Segmentation fault". I >>> believe there should be some type of Out Of Memory error, or something like >>> it. But now just blow up. Anyone thinks like me? Just my 102 Dominican >>> cents ($1 = $51 Dominican). :-) >>> >> >> Well, the behavior of the compiler itself is better discussed on the >> compiler's forums, although you may need your asbestos suit when you do so. >> >> That said, why do you want this variable to be automatic? Why do you want >> it allocated on the stack? > > I did not say automatically. I said that the compiler should provide some warning about the allocation being larger than the default stack. And, it should not result in a segmentation fault, but instead, the program should error out with out of memory, or, at least, "memory allocation is larger than default stack." Not just blow up. Automatic here means "stack allocated" (the "auto" keyword in C, which is almost always omitted because it is the default). Cheers - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple