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From: david@bacchus.esa.oz.au (David Burren [Athos])
Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
Subject: Re: compiler bug
Message-ID: <2606@bacchus.esa.oz.au>
Date: 5 May 91 06:16:09 GMT
References: <1991Apr25.183957.11195@Arco.COM> <1991Apr26.031408.23686@mendelson.com>
Organization: Expert Solutions Australia
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I couldn't resist this:

In <1991Apr26.031408.23686@mendelson.com> gsm@mendelson.com (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) writes:

>main()
>{
>     int dummy;
>     int *big_array[16484] /* allocates no space at all */

	BZZZT.	It allocates space for an array of 16484 pointers to ints.
		Btw, didn't you mean 16384? A #define would avoid that problem.
	I think what you meant to use was something like:

      int *big_array;

>     big_array = malloc(16384*sizeof(dummy)); /*Try and get it from the stack */
>}
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