On 03/06/2015 10:57 AM, Fabrice Allibe wrote:
Package: octave Version: 3.8.2-4 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, the size of a single Octave array cannot exceed 2 GB of memory because octave is not built with "--enable-64" flag
I'm not disputing that a version of Octave built with 64-bit indexing enabled would be useful, but on a system with 64-bit pointers and 32-bit indexing, the limit for any array is approximately 2^32 *elements* not 2GB of memory. The actual amount of memory allocated and used can be larger than than 2GB. This is explained in the Octave manual pages that you linked to:
www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Compiling-Octave-with-64_002dbit-Indexing.html
Also, there can be multiple arrays of up to this size. jwe