multi dimensional array, memory allocation

Hi,
I have a problem which i don't know exactly what it is.. So the subject of the message is also abit confusing..
I describe a multidimensional (2D) array staticly. I have one of the dimensions large (~200 000) and the other is 3. It is for handling the 3D coordinates of a geometry.
#define size 200 000
...
double marray[size][3];
...
but i have 10 of this dimensional arrays.

During compilation there is no error but at runtime i get a segmentation error. ( And when i reduce the size to e.g. 60 000, it compiles and runs normally...
Is there somehow limitations in C to describing the variables?? How should i handle this?

Second thing is: In the same program i want to describe these multidimensional arrays dynamically with MALLOC. Since i don't want to copy and paste the same procedure for every array i want to write a function to do this. I wrote this function and call this function from the main function. But it does not work... i think i don't know how to send the **pointer to a function.. I fsomeone has exprience with it, can you please help me...


#include<stdio.h>
#include<math.h>
#include<stdlib.h>
main()
{


int size1=65000,size2=3;
double **zer;



createmarray(size1,size2,zer);
/*
* ..
* do whatever i want.....
* ....
* */

freemarray(size1,size2,zer);

return;
}


void createmarray(int size1, int size2, double **xyz)
{

int i; // index

MALLOC(xyz, sizeof(double *) * size2);
for (i = 0; i < size2; i++) {
MALLOC(xyz[i], sizeof(double) * size1);
}
return;
}

void freemaray(int size1, int size2, double **xyz)
{

int i; // index

for (i = 0; i < size2; i++) {
free(xyz[i]);
}
free(xyz);


return;
}



Thanks in advance..