[fpc-pascal]sig seg using fpc under freebsd - 10 line program enclosed

[Jonas]

On Wednesday, April 18, 2001, at 06:50 AM, Simon Lai wrote:

> I am evaluating fpc as an alternative to C for 
> a project which uses lots of large arrays, under 
> FreeBSD.  The attached program however causes 
> a segmentation violation on entry to bomb. 

The following program also sigsegv's under Linux:

***
void t()
{
  double test[16777216];
  test[0] = 0.0;
}

void main()
{
  t();
}
***

I think you are simply not allowed to use such a huge amount of stack space. Try using a dynamic structure instead.


Jonas