Re: [Boost-users] size_type doubts / integer library..

From: Chris Jefferson (chris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-18 19:45:37

2008/8/18 Andrea Denzler <andrea_at_[hidden]>:
>> -----Messaggio originale-----
>> I believe (I checked some time ago) that you cannot allocate an object
>> of size 2GB on any 32-bit OS that I could get my hands on. Do you know
>> of any place where you can?
>
> Sure those systems are few, very few, but they exist. I think Solaris/x86
> can go to nearly 4GByte, some Linux to 3 GByte, and why not talking about
> the old  80286 allowing 64Kbyte allocations on a 16bit addressing scheme.
>

While Linux applications can allocate up to 3 GB altogether, I've
never seen a system where any single malloc request over about 800MB
works.

Chris