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Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 08:22:30 -0400
From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Preposterously large allocations
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Charles Sandmann wrote:
> 
> > ... 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 ...)

You won't be able to with nmalloc, at least not in a single
chunk.  I have wired in a limit of INT_MAX-65536 for any single
malloc/realloc.

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