Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 21:55:13 -0800 (PST)
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
        Federico Spinazzi <federico AT SysPr03 DOT disat DOT unimi DOT it>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Why won't this work?
Cc: Nicolas Blais <eletech AT netrover DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 02:40  3/30/1998 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Federico Spinazzi wrote:
>
>> You can declare an array for com:
>> char com[22222222222222];
>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>This is *way* too much.  If you compile such a program it will bomb, 
>since automatic arrays cannot be larger than 256KB without changing the 
>default stack size.  See section 15.9 of the DJGPP FAQ list, for more 
>about this.

Actually, it's even larger than 2^32, so you'll have to get an Alpha before
you can compile it. :)

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net