Error: array dimension overflow

[Spacen Jasset]

Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> "Jarrett Billingsley" <kb3ctd2 at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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>> "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.
> 
> Son of a.
> 
> Bill made a typo, the max is 16MB.  While Walter says that this is because 
> "any larger array should really be allocated at runtime and not in the 
> static data segment", I think it's really because OPTLINK crashes if you 
> have something larger than 16MB in the static data segment.
> 
> 9_9 
> 
> 
16Mb is more like it. Doubtless this limit will go away one day when the 
need becomes more pressing. Nothing to worry about too much... moving 
on. :-)