From: horst DOT kraemer AT snafu DOT de (Horst Kraemer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: A bug
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 1999 10:04:51 GMT
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On Sun, 08 Aug 1999 00:14:25 GMT, Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca> wrote:

> > >     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.
 
>     Well, I can't seem to recreate it, so it was probably my imagination, but I
> did notice that static array values are loaded from the executable, which makes
> this program over 40Megs as an executable:
> 
> ------------------
> #include <stdio.h>
> int a[10000000];
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>  printf("size = %d", sizeof(a));
>  return 0;
> }

On my system test.exe is  ( gcc -s test.c -o test.exe)

DJGPP/gcc 2.8.1   :         46080 bytes

mingw32/gcc 2.95 (release)   3072 bytes 


There may not be enough memory to execute the program, but the 10
million 0-ints are not loaded from file.

Regards
Horst