maximum number of variables?

[corey taylor]

Nicolas,

  The stack settings are fairly common, but I found a decent FAQ
answer for you pertaining directly to OSX and even an XCode option
which is nice.

http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2005/qa1419.html

corey

On 8/30/05, Nicolas Ouellette <sideshownic@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I am presently running a huge code following the hydrodynamical evolution of
> a system (in 2 dimentions).  I store the quantities evolving (density,
> velocity, pressure) into large 2-D arrays.  Recently, I tried to make my 2-D
> arrays bigger (to study a bigger system) and eventually, I reached a certain
> point where I was getting a "segmentation error".  The only thing I changed
> was the size of my arrays.
> 
> I deleted a few arrays that were redundant (making my code less user
> friendly), and I found that I could slightly increase the size of my arrays
> until I reached the "segmentation error".
> 
> Here are my questions:  1) Is there a maximum number of variables allowed
> when using gcc? (from my experience I am guessing yes) 2) Is there a way to
> increase the number of variables allowed when using gcc?
> 
> Thanking you for your help
> 
> Nicolas Ouellette
> 
> 
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