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From: Eliot Moss <moss@cs.umass.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: My C arrays are too large
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 18:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f6756d22-2fd6-28b2-28ec-568141ab14b4@cs.umass.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ftl0jb1i.fsf@Rainer.invalid>

On 9/13/2019 2:39 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Blair, Charles E III writes:
>> My apologies for failing to reply on-list.  I don't know how :(
>>
>> My machine is 64 bit, and I hope I installed the correct version of cygwin.
>>
>> This program:
>>
>> #include<stdio.h>
>> int main(){char *a[50][8192];
>> return 0;}
>>
>> compiles with gcc  (no special options) but gives "Segmentation fault".
> 
> You are creating an automatic variable that's larger than the default
> stack.  You need to enlarge the stack, either during link time or later
> e.g. via
> 
> peflags -x0x800000 a.out

Works for me (but how obscure!).   Eliot

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-13 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-13 12:18 Blair, Charles E III
2019-09-13 12:37 ` Eliot Moss
2019-09-13 18:44 ` Achim Gratz
2019-09-13 18:50   ` Eliot Moss [this message]
2019-09-13 19:01   ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2019-09-14  5:32     ` Lee
2019-09-18 19:09     ` Joel Rees
2019-09-18 20:40       ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2019-09-18 20:46         ` Eliot Moss
2019-09-19  1:19         ` Joel Rees
2019-09-19 18:04           ` Jose Isaias Cabrera
2019-09-19 21:58         ` Brian Inglis
2019-09-13 13:44 my " Blair, Charles E III
2019-09-13 14:20 ` Eliot Moss

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