[LUAU] programming question, buffer problem?

[Charles Lockhart]

Tim Newsham wrote:

>by 4M do you mean 4*1024*1024?
>  
>
Yeppers.

>If you declare local variables (non-static) they are allocated
>on the stack.  If you declare global variables they are either
>in the BSS or data segment (depending on if they are initialized
>to zeros or other values).  There are limitations on the amount
>of space available on the stack.  
>
Exactly, which is why I made them global.

>I'm not familiar with limitations
>in the bss/data.  However, you can avoid them, if they exist, by
>allocating the data at runtime using malloc or a similar function.
>In that case the data will be on the heap.
>  
>
Other than the 1/2 the available memory thing (which may be the 
culprit), neither am I.
We kind of lean away from dynamic allocation for this program. 
I'm trying to tweak around with sbrk() a bit to see if I can fudge 
things a bit.

>Where in the startup does the crash occur?
>  
>
When the program is loaded.  Nothing gets executed.

Thanks,
-Charles