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From: alf@xenon.stgt.sub.org (Ingo Feulner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Turbo C large character array
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Date: 2 Aug 90 20:01:53 GMT
References: <1990Jul27.193520.4689@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <price.649352434@glacier>
Reply-To: alf@xenon.stgt.sub.org (Ingo Feulner)
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In article <price.649352434@glacier>, Chad Price writes:
>In <1990Jul27.193520.4689@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
>>		char menu[1200][80];
>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

But doesn't say the ANSI standard that malloc() mustn't allocate more than
64K once a time? (so says my Lattice C manual)

-Ingo.

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