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From: lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de (Alexander Lehmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Flat Memory Questions
Date: 30 Jul 1996 18:38:18 GMT
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Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> wrote:
: > Array is put on the stack. But there is only 256Kb on the stack, so the rest
: > of your stack is all over your program. Anyway it is bad practice to use large
: > amounts of stack. You should allocate it dynamically if you want big amounts
: > of memory.

: "Using large amounts of stack" isn't bad practice in general - just on systems
: that aren't properly implemented :-)  (Hey, I'm allowed to bash what I wrote!)

: This is just a big wart on the DPMI 0.9 stuff - DJGPP V1.x under non-DPMI
: didn't have it, VMS doesn't have it, unix doesn't have it, etc.

Well, unix usually has at least maximum stack growth limit, otherwise
it wouldn't be able to distinguish between a wild pointer and a very
large array on the stack. (at least I think that's the reason).


bye, Alexander

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