From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP MEM BUG?
Date: 15 Jun 1997 06:10:05 GMT
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Paul Derbyshire (ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA) writes:

>>         Table thingy[255][128];

> That was about a megabyte of data pushed on the stack, which on DOS DJGPP,
> only holds 256K.

Oops... actually, just under 512K. 256*256 is 64K, so 128*255 is just
under 32K. That is times four ints per struct times four bytes per int,
gives 512K...

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