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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Initialization bug in Series 800 C compiler?
Message-ID: <1340037@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Dec 88 02:56:11 GMT
References: <105@bnr-vpa.UUCP>
Organization: HP NSG/ISD California Language Lab
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> for the Series 825 running version 2.0 of HP-UX.  It does not
> accept very large initialized arrays:
> 
> static short big_array[] = {
>  0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,
>     .
>     . with more than 64K bytes data.
>     .
>  0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,0xffff,
> }

This bug has been reported and attended to. A fix is available with HP-UX
v3.0.  The maximum *number* of initializers has been raised to about 64K.
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Shankar Unni
HP/DLD/CLL.