Pavel Saviankou writes: > i try still to compile a big source. (see mails with subj: ' "virtual memory > exhausted: Out of memory" with a large static array ') > > Now i try another way. > I generate a source, where i do allocate an array dynamicaly in the heap and > fill it out line by line with values. > The values are irregular, so i have to have every value. (cannot implement > some prescription for evaluation of them) > > The array has 7 dimensions. In every dimension 7 points. (can and will be > more) > > > My preprocessed source is ~51Mb and contains lines like We've been here before. What are you doing this? Why don't you write thet data into a file and read it at runtime? That's what everyone else would do. Reading the data at runtime would be no slower at all if you used mmap() to do it. Andrew.