PRB: C4040 May Occur on Declaration of Huge Array |
Q34170
6.00 6.00a 6.00ax 7.00 | 6.00 6.00a | 1.00 1.50 MS-DOS | OS/2 | WINDOWS kbtool kbprb ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The information in this article applies to: - The Microsoft C/C++ Compiler (CL.EXE), included with: - Microsoft C for MS-DOS, versions 6.0, 6.0a, and 6.0ax - Microsoft C for OS/2, versions 6.0 and 6.0a - Microsoft C/C++ for MS-DOS, version 7.0 - Microsoft Visual C++ for Windows, versions 1.0 and 1.5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SYMPTOMS ======== An attempt to declare a huge array fails and the compiler generates one of the following messages: warning C4040: near/far/huge on identifier ignored -or- warning C4040: memory attribute on 'identifier' ignored CAUSE ===== The application attempts to dynamically allocate a huge array on the stack. Far and huge arrays must be declared as global or static variables. RESOLUTION ========== Modify the source code to allocate far or huge arrays as global variables or as static variables. Additional reference words: 1.00 1.50 6.00 6.00a 6.00ax 7.00 8.00 8.00c KBCategory: kbtool kbprb KBSubcategory: CLIss
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Last Reviewed: May 5, 2001 |
