Re: Stack overflow

From:
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kim Gr=e4sman?= <kim@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Thu, 6 Sep 2007 15:13:23 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID:
<ba04e5657c918c9bec05d598187@news.microsoft.com>
Hi Francois,

VC++ version 6.0

Hi all, I'm programming a small app that do a lot of work with arrays
but when my arrays are big, I get a stack overflow :

Unhandled exception in a.exe: 0xC00000FD: Stack Overflow.

after I press 'OK' VC ask me for these files :
CHKSTK.ASM
MBSSTR.C
Here's my code :

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "afx.h"
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
static CString test[3000000];
long test2[3000000];
long test3[3000000];
long i;
for (i=0; i<3000000;i++)
{
test[i] = "1234567890";
test2[i] = 1234567890;
test3[i] = 1234567890;
}
return 0;
}
Any Idea on how to resolve this issue ?


Yes, don't create the arrays on the stack. You could try using std::vector;

#include <vector>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    static vector<CString> test(3000000);
    vector<long> test2(3000000);

    // etc.
}

std::vector looks like a value type, but allocates its buffer dynamically
from the heap.

- Kim

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