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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
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Subject: Re: QuickC Fatal Error, Automatic Allocation Exceeds 32k
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Date: 21 Aug 90 01:30:24 GMT
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In article <26D06DA7.5617@orion.oac.uci.edu>,
eabg020@orion.oac.uci.edu (Donald Doherty) writes:
>I am getting the fatal-error message "automatic allocation exceeds 32k"
>while compiling in the QuickC environment.  Evidently the space allocated
>for the local variables of the "main" function is 32k and, due to the
>fact that the program is math intensive with several variables (mostly
>of type double and several arrays), I have exceeded this limit.
>
>It is not clear to me how to change the amount of memory allocated to the
>local variables of any one function.
>
Declaring the variables static may help; I'm not sure. One way that
would get around this problem is to use dynamic memory allocation
for your arrays, using functions malloc etc.

Richard Stanton