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From: jack@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: HELP!!!
Message-ID: <714@turnkey.TCC.COM>
Date: 23 Jul 88 20:33:43 GMT
References: <5029@ozdaltx.UUCP> <558@wrs.UUCP>
Reply-To: jack@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel)
Organization: Turnkey Computer Consultants, Costa Mesa, CA
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In article <558@wrs.UUCP> owen@wrs.UUCP (Owen DeLong) writes:
>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:
 
[...code detail deleted...]

>>I keep getting the following error message
>>test.c(2) : error 126: auto allocation exceeds 32K
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>Well, Scotty, you have a serious problem.  The error message is quite self
>explanatory.  720*72=51840.  51840>32768.  Thus, you are trying to define
>a static data structure larger than 32K.  This is not allowed in the 286....
   ^^^^^^
I would say you should look at these "self-explanatory" error messages more
carefully, Owen, considering your parsing of the message is exactly what
fixes the problem, as quite a few have already pointed out. It is also quite
silly to say you can't have arrays larger than 32K considering that 'huge'
arrays that exceed 64K are available.

Given the numerous responses of those who knew what they were talking about
I would say it would be time to open mouth and insert foot! (It might help
to cover what should obviously be a very red face too :-)



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Jack F. Vogel
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