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- From: Dan Pop <danpop@ues5.cern.ch>
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- Subject: Re: Limit on #bytes inside of struct?
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 18:18:27 +0100
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- james@amber.biology.gatech.edu (James McIninch) writes:
-
- >ua302aa@lrz-muenchen.de wrote:
- >: jsquires@wam.umd.edu (jeffrey d squires) writes:
- >
- >: >Is there a limit on the number of bytes allowed inside of a struct?
- >
- >: Yes, there is a limit on the number of bytes allowed in one
- >: object. That limit is 32k.
- >
- >No. There is no limit. Individual implementations of compilers or OS's may
- >impose a limit, but there is no limit that is integral to the C languag itself.
-
- James is right. What the C language requires is that a compiler-imposed
- limit for the size of an object cannot be lower than 32k.
-
- Dan
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