problem with large arrays

[Peter Teuben]

On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 apaz@purdue.edu wrote:

> 
> 
> Could you please tell me how can I work with large arrays in C/Objective-C. My
> compiler (gcc) can not handle, for example, the following array
> a[15][150][9][197], which is not too big. If I reduce the size to
> a[15][150][9][19], for example, it works ok. I had prepared a small example to
> show the problem and it's in the attachment. Finally, I have the problem with
> both Linux and cygwin.

you're probably declaring this array in the body of a function?  You
could make it a static, or "promote" it a static in global namespace
of the file. Look at the command "size" on your executable. 

- peter