[comp.lang.c] array indexed by long. portable?

henry@delftcc.UUCP (Henry Rabinowitz) (07/13/87)

The following declaration appears to be OK in ANSI C:
	char a[70000L];
Is it portable to existing C compilers?

ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) (07/14/87)

The declaration is OK, but I know of many architectures that just
can not hack 70,000 byte character arrays.  I doubt that it will
work on most machines if this is an automatic variable.

-Ron