From: jlouwere AT galaxy DOT csc DOT calpoly DOT edu (Jan Louwerens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Bug report: Structs
Date: 22 Jan 1997 22:20:51 GMT
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Adam Kunen (kkunen AT facstaff DOT wisc DOT edu) wrote:

: struct FooType {
:         char blah[1024][128];
: };

: void foobar(struct FooType ptr){
:         return;
: }

: int main(void){
:         struct FooType eek;
:         foobar(eek);
:         return 0;
: }

passing such large structures by value is bad. The whole thing has to be 
pushed on the stack (which is probably where your errors are coming from). 
Try passing just a pointer to the struct (by reference) and I bet you it'll 
work.

JL