From: Andrea Denzler (andrea_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-18 18:02:26
> -----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.