Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pyrdc!ISIDAPS5!mike
From: mike@ISIDAPS5.UUCP (Mike Maloney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: HELP!!!
Summary: Move declaration of p to extern
Message-ID: <212@ISIDAPS5.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 88 18:38:25 GMT
References: <5029@ozdaltx.UUCP>
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In article <5029@ozdaltx.UUCP>, root@ozdaltx.UUCP (root) writes:
> I'm running SCO XENIX 2.2.1 and am trying to compile a
> program that contains the following code:
> 
> main()
> {
> unsigned char p[720][72];
> ;
> }
> I keep getting the following error message
> 
> test.c
> test.c(2) : error 126: auto allocation exceeds 32K

Move the declaration of 'p' to outside of the main.  It then becomes
external rather than automatic.  I believe that automatic storage comes 
from the stack frame when main is entered at run-time.  Hence on a 286
system, you're asking for a lot (even when you allocate 52K for the stack
with -F).

This shouldn't be a problem on 386 systems, because they use a variable
stack which can dynamically expand.  386 systems also aren't limited to
64K segments.

Good luck.
-- 

Mike Maloney				"The nice thing about standards
Integral Systems, Inc.			 is that there are so many to
Lanham Maryland				 choose from"  - Murphy