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jabl on Aug 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: GNU C Library 2.30

Absolutely, this is the right thing to do.

If one needs to allocate more than 2 GB in a single allocation, time to move to 64-bit.

Iwan-Zotow on Aug 2, 2019 [–]

> If one needs to allocate more than 2 GB in a single allocation, time to move to 64-bit.

time to move to (anonymus) mmap - it still has size_t as type for the size argument

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