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Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2000 13:19:02 +1000
From: leon <Leon AT caresystems DOT com DOT au>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Array crashes my program!
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MM wrote:

> A simple program of the form
>  int main (void)
> {
>    int array[1000000];
>    return (0);
> }
>
> continually crashes my program.  The symified error message complains
> about something called
> the __djgpp_exceptional_table.
> If I decrease the size of the array it doesn't crash but leaving it as
> is or making it bigger makes it crash
> and I know I have enough ram to address that much memory.
> Dynamically allocating that amount works fine.  Anyone know what's
> wrong?

from  my limited understanding - if you new something - it goes on free
store, but if declared as data emeber of class - goes onto stack. The
stack is much smaller in size (memorywise). Now in modern systems (well
ala win95) i don't think it is an issue as every program works in virtual
space - but since we are tralking about comiling dos programs - perhaps it
is still valid...