Error: array dimension overflow

Jarrett Billingsley kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 3 11:20:28 PDT 2008


"Spacen Jasset" <spacen at yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:ft35ik$q7g$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> Brian Hay wrote:
>>> Newbie Q:
>>>
>>> During compilation I'm getting the error: "array dimension overflow" but 
>>> it doesn't provide any information as to where (module and line number) 
>>> the error might be, so I'm at a loss. Other errors seem to provide such 
>>> information.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> I think there's a limit of 16K for the size of static arrays.
>> Do you have any really big static arrays?
>>
>> Anyway, the compiler should generate a line number for that.  Not 
>> providing one is a bug.
>>
>> --bb
> 16k Seems shockingly low. Is there documentation on this. Even old Dos 
> compilers for C support close to 64k indexes. 




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