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From: newton@cme.nist.gov (Eric Newton)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: big arrays for iris-4D are broken
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Date: 23 Feb 90 18:37:46 GMT
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/* 
   gcc-1.37 configured for "iris"

   This program, compiled without any options, dumps core.
   TOO_BIG here is any integer larger than 8186.

*/

#include <stdio.h>
#DEFINE TOO_BIG 10000

main ()
{
        char * s[TOO_BIG];

        printf("Hello world\n");
        s[0] = "   ";
        printf("Hello world\n");
}

/*
    prints:

Hello world
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

*/