Reading garbage instead of segfault for non-existant memory locations
sizeof gives you the number of bytes the array occupies, not the number of elements it consists of. So as a double requires 8 bytes on your system, the result should become clear.
out-of-memory
OutOfMemory exception when loading xml in C#
I am assuming that your xml file is to big to be handled by the XmlTextReader. (Because XmlTextReader will try to read the whole xml file at once) You could try a SAX parser which does a sequential parsing. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_API_for_XML See http://saxdotnet.sourceforge.net/ for a c# solution. As far as I know there is no … Read more