From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Preposterously large allocations
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Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 17:23:50 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <2110-Sat03May2003004811+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> from "Eli Zaretskii" at May 03, 2003 12:48:11 AM
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> ... and likewise for the preposterously large allocations.

Preposterous is in the eye of the beholder :-)

I've been asked to look at making DJGPP do the right thing for
4GB address space type work.  It seems that "real" 32-bit
operating systems are more limiting for big allocations than
DJGPP is (you can already run programs requiring over 3GB of
memory if you are careful - but people would like to be less
careful ...)