OK its big but an uncerimonious crash isn't right

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thedubdude

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Posted: 16th Sep 2009 07:57

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I admit this array is big but shouldn't the compiler do something other than just uncerimoniously crash?

dim chan(10000000,28)
print "hello"
wait key
end

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Serial Velocity

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Posted: 16th Sep 2009 17:51 Edited at: 16th Sep 2009 17:52

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Unless my math is wrong, you're allocating nearly 1,120,000,000 (10,000,000 x 28 x 4) bytes of memory for the array, or ~1.1GB, which could be responsable for the crash.

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tiresius

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Posted: 16th Sep 2009 18:13

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Is the compiler itself crashing, or the EXE it produces when you run it?

If it's the compiler, you have a point.

If it's the EXE, don't make an array that big.