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From: pepke@gw.scri.fsu.edu (Eric Pepke)
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Subject: Re: THINK C 4.0 bug?
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Date: 6 Sep 90 18:21:40 GMT
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In article <6280@adobe.UUCP> hawley@adobe.COM (Steve Hawley) writes:
> This allocation happens before the printf, and
> hoses the machine since 32000 bytes is really an awful lot to ask from 
the
> machine as local variable space for a single function, since the limit 
imposed
> by the compiler is 32K.

More to the point, the default stack size of the Macintosh is only about 
5K.  If you compare the address of the array to the address of the 
function, you should find that the function code itself is somewhere 
within that array.  There's no telling what you are dinking with, and you 
should not really be surprised when it bombs.

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