Help needed with MSC error 'main' > 32K

[Walter Bright]

In article <20279.2749b4b0 at oregon.uoregon.edu> michelbi at oregon.uoregon.edu writes:
/I am having trouble with a fatal compilation error in Microsoft C 6.0 and
/QuickC 2.5.  The error message is as follows:
/    fatal error C1126: 'main' : automatic allocation exceeds 32K
/The only unusual thing that I can see with my main is the size of 4 arrays,
/each having 5000 float elements.  If I declare these arrays global to the
/program (ie before 'main()' declaration) the program will compile just fine.


I assume your program looks like:
	main()
	{	float a[5000]; float b[5000]; float c[5000]; float d[5000];
		...
	}
A bit of multiplication gives us 80,000 bytes you are trying to allocate
on the stack. The PC hardware only allows a 64k byte stack, MSC allows
something less than that.

You'll need to allocate arrays that large statically, or use malloc() to
dynamically generate storage for them.