Christos,

Thanks. It is obvious now. I assumed that the array was static but it is
dynamic by default and allocated on the stack. I should have used malloc
or 'static'.

The following worked.

       static float matrix[N][N];

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 christos@zoulas.com wrote:
> Don't allocate the memory on the stack, use malloc instead. You can
> use ulimit [sh] or unlimit [csh] to increase the available stack size,
> but usually you have more space in the data segment.
>
> >#include <stdio.h>
> >#include <stdlib.h>
> >
> >#define N 10000
> >
> >int main( void )
> >{
> >    int i;
> >    float matrix[N][N];
> >
> >    for ( i = 0; i < N; i++ ) {
> >	matrix[i][i] = (float) random();
> >    }
> >
> >    return;
> >}

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