Sender: "Rolf Campbell" <cp1v45 AT nortelnetworks DOT com>
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Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 13:36:11 -0400
From: "Rolf Campbell" <cp1v45 AT nortelnetworks DOT com>
Organization: Nortel Networks
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Subject: Re: A bug
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH] wrote:
> > > sciana wyglad [MaxBok + 1] [MaxBok + 1] [MaxWys + 1] [IlScian];
> >     That's a big array, 11x11x21x4x8 =~ 80k.  I've heard that DJGPP
> > sometimes has problems allocation global static arrays.
> I don't think this is true.  You may be confusing static arrays with
> automatic arrays (those allocated off the stack), but even then the limit
> is 512KBytes (in DJGPP v2.02 and later).

    I was probably wrong about that specific issue (the 80k), but in the
past, I've had problems with very large global static arrays (several Megs).

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     -Rolf Campbell (39)3-6318