From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: New to djgpp, desperate for help...
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 17:01:37 -0400
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The Hodsdons wrote:
> 
> Okay, after all that, my simple question is: Why didn't this simple
> program work?
> (I am running it in a Win95 DOS prompt window.  I set DPMI to 65535 as
> it
> suggested in the FAQ.)
> 
> main() {
>   int test[90000];
>   printf("This is a test.\n");
>   return(0);
>   }

The problem here is that you're overflowing the 256K runtime stack
(90000 x 4 = 360000).  The DJGPP Frequently Asked Questions list tells
you how to enlarge the stack in chapter 15.9.  However, no matter what
compiler you use, it's not really a good idea to allocate large data
structures automatically.

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