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From: Michael Chapman <mchapman@hl.siemens.de>
Subject: Re: Help you C++ Debuggers!
Date: 1997/01/22
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Chris Engebretson wrote:
[snip]
 
> On the other hand, if you write
> 
>     char array[8 * 1024 * 1024];
> 
> you may very well run into problems, depending on the definition
> of size_t.  Since declaring an automatic array of this size is
> completely ridiculous, though, I'd hardly consider this a fault.
> 

This is not at all ridiculous.
I have had good reasons in the past to declare considerably bigger
automatic arrays.
The above after all only uses up 23 of your 64 address bits if you
are on a real machine ;-)