Creating an 2-dimensional array of a struct results in crash

Question

I am trying to generate a two-dimensional array of a struct, but this results in the program not launching. The window freezes and the program quits after a few

Answer 1

You are allocating 801 * 401 (=321201) elements of struct absCell on the stack. Assuming you have a 32bit machine it is 2569608 Byte (~2.45 MB). According to this it is blowing up your stack.

Move the elements to heap like:

class Field {
public:
    static const int minX = -400;
    static const int maxX = 400;
    static const int minY = 0;
    static const int maxY = 400;

    Field() {
        cells = new absCell*[maxX - minX + 1];
        for(int i=0; i

Update

Material and health can be saved in a char. Accessing health you have to recalculate it:

put -> x*100
get -> x/100

Update 2

Except you have some reasons, using a vector is most likely the better option, as Mark B 's answer describes.