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From: paul@cacilj.UUCP (Paul Close)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: MWC & large arrays -- help!
Keywords: why?
Message-ID: <734@cacilj.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jun 88 05:10:55 GMT
Reply-To: paul@cacilj.UUCP (Paul Close)
Organization: CACI Products Company, La Jolla, CA
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I'm having problems with the following construct:

struct x {
	blah, blah ...
	struct y arr[64][64];
	};

where struct y is pretty small.  I've checked the "sizeof" on a Sun-3 with
the ints = shorts, and the sizeof(struct x) was 65500 or so -- just under
64k.  However, MWC complains about the size being too big until I trim it
down to ~16000 bytes!  The exact error is from cc0, and reads: "size of
struct too large".  Using 3.0, I also got a message about size_t.

This is just the definition -- the actual storage is malloced.  (Am I in
trouble using malloc()?  I know Malloc has bugs, but how is malloc()?)

Can some of you MWC gurus help me here?  I am quite familiar with C, but
this is my first big program on the ST.  BTW, this isn't a program I
wrote, I'm just experimenting with porting....

Thanks all!
-- 
Paul Close	paul@cacilj.CTS.COM 	...!{uunet, ucsd, crash}!cacilj!paul

Shaw's Principle:
  Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.