* RE: gcc array size limitation problem
@ 2004-06-16 23:45 lrtaylor
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: lrtaylor @ 2004-06-16 23:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: fdeng, gcc-help
You have to remember that integers are four bytes long, so you're
actually trying to allocate an array of 4 * 2^29 bytes = 2,147,483,648
bytes. Note that this is one more than the theoretical maximum of 2^31
- 1 = 2,147,483,647. So, this does not appear to be a bug in the
compiler, but probably expected behavior on a 32 bit machine.
Thanks,
Lyle
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From: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org [mailto:gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org] On
Behalf Of fdeng
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 5:47 PM
To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Cc: fdeng@ualberta.ca
Subject: gcc array size limitation problem
Hi all,
I used malloc() to create a large array.
When array size m=2^28, no problem,
but when m=2^29, it failed and malloc() returned NULL.
My code is as follows:
B = (unsigned int *)malloc(m*sizeof(unsigned int));
I used gcc 3.2.2 and then tried gcc 3.4.0, all failed.
I searched the archive and found a similar problem of g77
and its answer. However, it seems not for gcc.
Any ideas? Thanks a lot,
Fan
The similar mail I found is attached below:
/**********************************************
ignat wrote:
> Using g77 (GNU project Fortran Compiler, v0.5.24) I have encountered a
> problem of array size limitation.
> I found out that size of an array is limited to 2^27 -1 = 134 217 728,
> while integer itself can be 2^31 -1 = 2 147 483 647.
> I actually need an array with 600 000 000 numbers. What can I do?
I fixed this for the 3.1 release, basically by removing a check that I
proved unnecessarily strict.
So you could try out a recent snapshot of gcc/g77 (see our home page at
http://gcc.gnu.org, entry "Snapshots" in the left column). However, one
shouldn't use snapshot compilers for production work.
Another option is to apply the following patch to a recent release (see
entry "Releases" in the left column) and build that compiler.
Hope this helps,
--
Toon Moene - mailto:toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl - phoneto: +31 346 214290
Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
Maintainer, GNU Fortran 77: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html
Join GNU Fortran 95: http://g95.sourceforge.net/ (under construction)
2001-10-22 Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
* com.c (ffecom_check_size_overflow_): Only check for
TREE_OVERFLOW.
*** com.c.orig Fri Oct 19 14:59:44 2001
--- com.c Sun Oct 21 14:17:15 2001
*************** ffecom_check_size_overflow_ (ffesymbol s
*** 2267,2272 ****
if ((tree_int_cst_sgn (TYPE_SIZE (type)) < 0)
! || (!dummy && (((TREE_INT_CST_HIGH (TYPE_SIZE (type)) != 0))
! || TREE_OVERFLOW (TYPE_SIZE (type)))))
{
ffebad_start (FFEBAD_ARRAY_LARGE);
--- 2267,2271 ----
if ((tree_int_cst_sgn (TYPE_SIZE (type)) < 0)
! || (!dummy && TREE_OVERFLOW (TYPE_SIZE (type))))
{
ffebad_start (FFEBAD_ARRAY_LARGE);
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 2+ messages in thread
* gcc array size limitation problem
@ 2004-06-16 23:38 fdeng
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: fdeng @ 2004-06-16 23:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc-help; +Cc: fdeng
Hi all,
I used malloc() to create a large array.
When array size m=2^28, no problem,
but when m=2^29, it failed and malloc() returned NULL.
My code is as follows:
B = (unsigned int *)malloc(m*sizeof(unsigned int));
I used gcc 3.2.2 and then tried gcc 3.4.0, all failed.
I searched the archive and found a similar problem of g77
and its answer. However, it seems not for gcc.
Any ideas? Thanks a lot,
Fan
The similar mail I found is attached below:
/**********************************************
ignat wrote:
> Using g77 (GNU project Fortran Compiler, v0.5.24) I have encountered a
> problem of array size limitation.
> I found out that size of an array is limited to 2^27 -1 = 134 217 728,
> while integer itself can be 2^31 -1 = 2 147 483 647.
> I actually need an array with 600 000 000 numbers. What can I do?
I fixed this for the 3.1 release, basically by removing a check that I
proved unnecessarily strict.
So you could try out a recent snapshot of gcc/g77 (see our home page at
http://gcc.gnu.org, entry "Snapshots" in the left column). However, one
shouldn't use snapshot compilers for production work.
Another option is to apply the following patch to a recent release (see
entry "Releases" in the left column) and build that compiler.
Hope this helps,
--
Toon Moene - mailto:toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl - phoneto: +31 346 214290
Saturnushof 14, 3738 XG Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
Maintainer, GNU Fortran 77: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g77_news.html
Join GNU Fortran 95: http://g95.sourceforge.net/ (under construction)
2001-10-22 Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
* com.c (ffecom_check_size_overflow_): Only check for TREE_OVERFLOW.
*** com.c.orig Fri Oct 19 14:59:44 2001
--- com.c Sun Oct 21 14:17:15 2001
*************** ffecom_check_size_overflow_ (ffesymbol s
*** 2267,2272 ****
if ((tree_int_cst_sgn (TYPE_SIZE (type)) < 0)
! || (!dummy && (((TREE_INT_CST_HIGH (TYPE_SIZE (type)) != 0))
! || TREE_OVERFLOW (TYPE_SIZE (type)))))
{
ffebad_start (FFEBAD_ARRAY_LARGE);
--- 2267,2271 ----
if ((tree_int_cst_sgn (TYPE_SIZE (type)) < 0)
! || (!dummy && TREE_OVERFLOW (TYPE_SIZE (type))))
{
ffebad_start (FFEBAD_ARRAY_LARGE);
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