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From: bob@taumet.com (Robert Francis Brewin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: HELP:  _BSS : segment/group exceeds 64k
Message-ID: <776@taumet.com>
Date: 20 Jun 91 16:31:17 GMT
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Reply-To: bob@taumet.UUCP (Robert Francis Brewin)
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_BSS is the designation for that area of memory which holds uninitialized
data.  Unfortunately, this segment is part of a larger "group", typically
known as DGROUP ( on DOS machines at least. ).  DGROUP is limited in size
to 64k, and thus this limits any data in _BSS to 64k.  I have never tried
it, but if you try compiling the same program using BC++ and use the HUGE
model, this may solve your problem.  If that doesn't work, you will have
to modify your code so that "somehow" some of the data which is in _BSS
gets allocated on the heap instead.