Re: malloc on 64 AMD64

[Juergen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de>]

Sebastian Haase <haase@msg.ucsf.edu> writes:

> We are planning to by an Athlon64 (or Opteron) system and since I
> like debian I am posting this "request": 

> What output can I expect from this c program:

A crash  ;-)

> <code>
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main()  {  size_t n;  void *p;  double gb;
> for(gb=10;gb>.3;gb-=.5) {
> 	n= 1024L * 1024L * 1024L * gb; 
> 	p = malloc( n );
> 	printf("%12lu %4.1lfGb %p\n",n,n/1024./1024./1024.,p);
> 	free(p); }  return 0;  }
> </code>

because you ignored this warning:

> test64.c: In function `main':
> test64.c:5: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast

If you fix the code (#include <stdlib.h>), you can allocate more
memory than on x86.


        Juergen

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