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Date: Sat, 07 Aug 1999 10:46:18 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: A bug
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Rolf Campbell wrote:
> 
> 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).

If you can still reproduce them, perhaps you could report it so we can
see if a real problem underlies it.
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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com