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From: rang@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Anton Rang)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: Re: Bug with large local variables.
Message-ID: <2717@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 25 Apr 89 06:03:48 GMT
References: <VAX-MM(187)+TOPSLIB(118).24-Apr-89.17:31:04.ISI.EDU>
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In-reply-to: JDEIFIK@isi.edu's message of 25 Apr 89 01:31:04 GMT

In article <VAX-MM(187)+TOPSLIB(118).24-Apr-89.17:31:04.ISI.EDU> JDEIFIK@isi.edu (Jeff Deifik) writes:

   When I compile the following program with gcc, and run it it, I get
   Segmentation fault (core dumped)

   [ ... ]
   int	a[250000L];

       printf("Hello World\n");
   [ ... ]

What is your stack limit set to?  This would allocate 1 MB of stack
space; at least on our system, the default stack limit is 512KB.  (Use
the csh 'limit' command to check it out.)

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