On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 13:59, Jochen Voss wrote: > The real memory allocation is delayed until the > memory is actually used. So a program allocating but not using > 2 gigs of memory would just run fine. Nope, because the _address space_ is created on malloc (or, actually, brk), and you don't have 2GB of free address space to play around with on a 32-bit machine, with a normal kernel.
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