From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7272aa7508a3d83f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: pointer questions References: <19cfb$4361207d$4995001$19541@ALLTEL.NET> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:26:14 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.212.184 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1130534774 67.3.212.184 (Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:26:14 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:26:14 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6041 Date: 2005-10-28T21:26:14+00:00 List-Id: Dr. Adrian Wrigley wrote: > My stock trading software originally used very large arrays > of pricing data (around 1GB of data). This worked fine for many > months. One day, I decided to add a level of redirection, using > a large array of access values. After that, the program would > fail mysteriously every few months. But why? So your stack was ECC memory, but your heap was not? -- Jeff Carter "Blessed are they who convert their neighbors' oxen, for they shall inhibit their girth." Monty Python's Life of Brian 83