Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!gatech!purdue!decwrl!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hpcllla!hpclisp!hpclscu!shankar 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 Lines: 16 > 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. --- Shankar Unni HP/DLD/CLL.