Diagnostic 5656: Variable xxxx too large for NTCOFF. Bigger than 2GB. Use heap instead

This error message is caused by a limitation of the COFF object file format that Microsoft uses.
The COMMON areas are allocated in static memory which has a 2 GB limit. The error message advises
moving the data to heap. To do this, make your arrays allocatable. To make the data globally
accessible like a COMMON area, the data should be defined in modules.

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