My arrays in C are too large

Fri Sep 13 12:10:00 GMT 2019

On 9/13/2019 7:04 AM, Blair, Charles E III wrote:
> I have been using on other machines a program that includes
>> char *a[50][8192];
>> but this declaration, by itself, gives "segmentation" errors.
>> [8192 is BUFSIZ on other machines, although it seems to be 1024 here.
> The program uses 50 different permutations on strings of size BUFSIZ.]

It's surprising to me, since that is 50 * 8192 = 400K char * pointers,
which is likely 1600K bytes (assuming a 32-bit machine). Not tiny,
but well within the scope of modern machines. The strings themselves
are what will take a lot of space, unless a lot of the pointers are
NULL or something. There would seem to be something else going on.
Can you reduce this to the smallest failing example?
Regards - EM
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