From: chris319 <chris319 AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Array Size Question
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 16:46:48 -0800
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>What a curious question!  Have you been using other compilers, say, 16-bit
>compilers recently?
>
>As far as I know, gcc will allow you to create an array up to probably the
>maximum address space on a 32-bit processor.  I've made arrays that are 64
>or so megabytes of structs, and I assume one can go beyond that...
>
>If you're asking about the maximum elements in an array, that's also
>probabably going to be about 2.147 billion.
>
>I suggest you don't worry about this, unless you start to have problems.

The problem I'm having is that I set up an array of 1024 doubles, I explicitly
initialize all elements to zero using a "for" loop, and bizarre non-zero values
are somehow creeping into array elements above 512.