Array size problem

[Sisyphus]

Justinas wrote:

> Hi there!
> 
> Probably it is unavaiable such a big continous memory area, try to solve this with aray with pointers to smaller areas. Could you mail me a source code, i'll try this on WinXP box(i have one @ work).
> 
> 

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
     float a[7000000];
     printf("DONE\n");
}

If you request a sufficiently large block of memory you should get the 
runtime popup reporting the "unknown software exception". On linux 
you'll get a "segmentation fault".

Cheers,
Rob


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