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Date:      Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:42:41 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Brendan Kosowski <brendan@bmk.com.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: GCC and Arrays bigger than 8MB
Message-ID:  <19991215194241.A9835@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991216120449.12061A-100000@garfield>; from "Brendan Kosowski" on Thu Dec 16 12:11:41 GMT 1999
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.991216120449.12061A-100000@garfield>

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In the last episode (Dec 16), Brendan Kosowski said:
> 
> I get a segmentation fault when I try to execute a prog compiled with gcc
> when my arrays are bigger than 8 Megabytes.
> 
> How do I tell gcc that I want to use BIG arrays ???
> 

Change your resource limits in your shell.  The default is for an 8MB
stack.  An alternative is to malloc your array storage.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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