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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Turbo C large character array
Keywords: TC, char, array, large, huge
Message-ID: <2599@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 30 Jul 90 18:17:56 GMT
References: <1990Jul27.193520.4689@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Distribution: comp
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <1990Jul27.193520.4689@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
<	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.
<		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.

The huge model is not necessary. Try rewriting it as:
	char *menu[1200];
Initialize as:
	for (i = 0; i < 1200; i++)
		menu[i] = (char *) malloc(80);
Use as:
	menu[i][j]

Look, ma, no huge pointers! I also think you'll find that this executes
faster than huge model, because no pointer normalization is necessary.

For space efficiency, you might also consider reversing the array indices.