Turbo C Problem?

[Peter J. Holsberg]

In article <44100006 at hcx2> daver at hcx2.SSD.HARRIS.COM writes:
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|The following dumb, little program is compiled with Turbo-C 1.0, running under
|MS-DOS 3.2.  Shortly after starting up, the C compiler goes berserk.  The
|screen flashes in reverse video and the operating system reboots itself.
|In a larger example, the auto-reboot does not take place, but the C compiler
|hangs up, the recommended "control-break to quit" has no effect, and I have
|to reboot the system anyway.  What is going on?  Is this a C compiler
|problem?  Would there be any difference in version 1.5?
|
|#define R 41
|#define C 480
|main()
|{
|   struct
|   {
|      unsigned a:1;
|   } b[R][C];
|
|   int i, j;
|     for (i=0; i<R; ++i)
|      for (j=0; j<C; ++j)
|      {
|         b[i][j].a = 0;
|      }
|}


In version 1.5, your program compiles without error and, on execution,
does nothing.

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