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From: price@glacier.unl.edu (Chad Price)
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Subject: Re: Turbo C large character array
Keywords: TC, char, array, large, huge
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Date: 30 Jul 90 15:40:34 GMT
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In <1990Jul27.193520.4689@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:


>	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.


>---
>John Gordon
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>GEnie:    j.gordon14                  

I'm afraid you have to use malloc (calloc), rather than simply declare
the large array. Then it works fine.

Chad Price
price@fergvax.unl.edu