RE:size limit for static arrays in cygwin/gcc

2003-02-17 Thread Randall R Schulz
Danny, At 12:55 2003-02-17, Danny Smith wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: > A couple of months ago, someone reported on how local (stack) > allocations larger than a certain threshold were allocated on the heap. > In fact, you, Danny, contributed materially to that thread: Subject > "Strange beha

RE:size limit for static arrays in cygwin/gcc

2003-02-17 Thread Danny Smith
Randall R Schulz wrote: > A couple of months ago, someone reported on how local (stack) > allocations larger than a certain threshold were allocated on the heap. > In fact, you, Danny, contributed materially to that thread: Subject > "Strange behaviour of gcc" starting with a posting by > [EMAIL

RE:size limit for static arrays in cygwin/gcc

2003-02-16 Thread Randall R Schulz
Danny, A couple of months ago, someone reported on how local (stack) allocations larger than a certain threshold were allocated on the heap. In fact, you, Danny, contributed materially to that thread: Subject "Strange behaviour of gcc" starting with a posting by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Dec. 24, 2

RE:size limit for static arrays in cygwin/gcc

2003-02-16 Thread Danny Smith
"Charles D. Russell" wrote: >Meanwhile, I am trying to find an equivalent problem in C so that it will > get more attention. Unfortunately, I don't know much C. The subsequent > program fails with a segmentation violation if one tries to allocate more > than a few Mb of memory on either my