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Actually, this is more a known limitation than anything; the bug
is that the compiler (and linker don't complain.   You see, the
compiler, at least under small data, assumes that it can reach
everything with a 16-bit offset from an address register.
Obviously if you declare such large arrays, it cannot.  It could
just look at the size of the array and say `that's too big',
unless you are using the array (and compiling code) in a file
where the array is declared external.  It's real easy to get
around, with a malloc, and probably helps your program run on a
fragmented system, but I hope Jim gets around to flagging that
as an error real soon.  I've seen too much code that assumes a
virtual memory environment and simply

int foo[100000], bar[100000], baz[100000] ;

-tom

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