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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:08:22 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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Subject: Re: gcc 3.3.1-3 runtime error: static data storage size
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Christopher wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 10:36:23AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>>Pietro schrieb:
>>
>>> Gerrit,
>>
>>> I think you just did:
>>
>>> the program should print "ok" upon executing and it didn't. if you debug,
>>> say, with insight, aa.exe will bail before reaching the printf statement,
>>> generating a segmentation violation signal.
>>
>>> let me know. thanks for looking into it.
>>
>>> Pietro
>>
>>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>>
>>>> Pietro wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > I have the following example to propose:
>>>> > /** aa.c **/
>>>> > #define NXY 5000
>>>> > #define NXY 7000
>>>> > int xy[NXY][NXY];
>>>> > main(){
>>>> > printf("ok\n");
>>>> > }
>>>>
>>>> > This will work when NXY=5000, but will generate a SIGSEV exception before
>>>> > reaching the first statement when NXY=7000.
>>>>
>>>> > The array in the faulty case is 187MB. The gcc documentation gives 2GB as
>>>> > the limit for having to switch to dynamic allocation. Any fixes? or
>>>> > relevant compiler options possibly available?
>>>>
>>>> I cannot reproduce it on my W2K Professional box:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> $ cat aa.c
>>>> #define NXY 7000
>>>>
>>>> int xy[NXY][NXY];
>>>> main(){
>>>> printf("ok\n");
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> $ gcc -o aa aa.c
>>>>
>>>> $ ./aa.exe
>>>>
>>>> Gerrit
>>>> --
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>>>>
>>
>>Yes, I see.  Yhe problem is the default stack size on cygwin (2 MB), you
>>can increase it.
>>
>>$ gcc -o aa -Wl,--stack,8388608 aa.c
>>
>>$ ./aa
>>ok
>>
>>$ cat aa.c
>>#define NXY 7000
>>
>>int xy[NXY][NXY];
>>main(){
>>printf("ok\n");
>>}

> Why would the stack size affect a global variable?

I don't know.  In this case it seems to work when I define the stack
with 8MB and it doesn't work when I use the default stack settings.


Gerrit
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