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From: Jeff Urlwin
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:56

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In article <1993Jan11.073220.6853@netcom.com> daveb@netcom.com (Dave Briccetti) writes:
>malloc takes a "size_t" as an argument.  Your argument is too big.

Sorry.  Not the case with a 32bit compiler.  (size_t is unsigned int, thus
possible values are in the range of 0..4,294,967,296 (inclusive)).

The problem is not allocating enough space for all those integers to be 
scanned through.

Jeff
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>Dave Briccetti, Owner, Dave Briccetti & Associates
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