segmentation fault-- is my array too long?
Charles Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Thu May 6 12:11:56 PDT 2004
This doesn't have much to do with FreeBSD, but...
On May 6, 2004, at 2:58 PM, Caroline Korves wrote:
> Any idea on what I should change to make the program run with large
> numbers of elements in my arrays?
Automatic variables get allocated from the stack, which can only grow
to handle 8 MB or so by default. If you dynamicly allocate these
arrays using malloc(), or else add the "static" keyword before the
following declarations, you can probably increase the size of persons
by a factor of 10 or more:
> double ncost[persons][scens];
> double nuts[persons][scens];
--
-Chuck
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