On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:36:00AM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:49:47AM +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> > > VG_(get_memory_from_mmap): request for 1953656832 bytes failed.
> > > VG_(get_memory_from_mmap): 58853360 bytes already allocated.
> >
> > Something's trying to allocate 2 gigs of RAM (if I got the order of
> > magnitude right) I don't think that's something a regular process is
> > supposed to succeed with frequently on x86-32.
>
> Not my program... It works fine without valgrind (at least at the
> moment).
If I remember correctly, you can do
ptr = malloc (<really large number>);
without problem. 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.
Jochen
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