C programming, why does this large array declaration produce a segmentation fault?

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Well, for one thing, that’s two billion integers. If you have a 32-bit address space and int has a size of four bytes on your platform (typical for a 32-bit platform), you can’t store that many integers, period.

Even still, you only have so much space available to you on the stack, which is where automatic variables are located.

If you need a really large array, you should dyncamically allocate it using malloc() (and if you do so, be sure to free it using free() when you are done with it!).

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