size of array "" is too large

[Nicholas Sherlock]

Hariharan wrote:
> [...] in a 16-bit target (picochip), you cannot define,
>
> struct trial
> {
>   long a[10000];
> };
>
> In the case above, i get a
> "size of array ‘a’ is too large" error.
>
> The thing that took me by surprise was, if i split the structure to
>
> struct trial
> {
>   long a[5000];
>   long b[5000];
> };
>
> This works fine. 
If your "long" is 32-bit, then your first array covers more memory than 
the range of a signed 16-bit integer, whereas the second set of arrays 
doesn't hit this limitation. Perhaps the limitation is forced on GCC by 
the limitations of your target.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock