gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) (07/28/90)
Hello. I am having a problem, and I hope someone can help me.
I am trying to declare a char array that is rather large, and TCC
won't accept it, it says it is too large to fit within available memory.
Bull! I know for a fact that there is at least 300 or 400K left. Anyway,
here is the declaration:
char menu[1200][80];
By my calculations, this shoud be equal to 96K worth. I am using
the Huge model, which specifically says that arrays of more than 64K may be
used.
Any help will be most appreciated.
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John Gordon
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GEnie: j.gordon14 davem@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Dave McQuate) (07/31/90)
If your declaration is local to a function, it will be allocated from the stack--I don't think the stack may be any larger than 64k. I'm not sure about declaring it as a static (ie global)--it might work that way. I am sure that it may be drawn from the heap as a dynamic array by using farmalloc(), and recycled into the heap with farfree(). Dave McQuate Voice: (707) 577-4585 INTERNET: davem%hpmwtd@hplabs.hp.com UUCP: ...hplabs!hpmwtd!davem