From: Ryan McGee <rdm AT IHateSpam DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "big" arrays in GnuC++ V2
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 1997 10:34:04 -0600
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just a wild guess, but maybe it's having a problem allocating the memory.  Have you
tried doing this:

unsigned char *BIG;
BIG=malloc(2000000);
if(BIG == NULL)
{
    printf("ERROR");
    return -1;
}

Doesn't that do the exact same thing except checks for errors?  Correct me if I'm wrong
but can't you access it the same way? (ex BIG[500] = 'b').  That's just my 2 cents worth
anyway

Ryan
RDM AT inlink DOT com

Stritt wrote:

> Hello !
>
> In GnuC++ V1 I never had problems with "big arrays", that means for example
>
> "unsigned char BIG[2000000]" -this should allocate an array of ca 2MB.
>
> But now, whith Version 2 of GnuC++ und Go32-v2 the Compiler compiles my program, but
> when i execute it, it crashes :-(((.
>
> I really don't know what to do!
> If anyone could help me, i would be very thankful!
>
> ciao,
> mr rooTS