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Subject: Re: [9front] malloc
From: arisawa <arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp>
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I have understood what cinap said by this:

> 	if(dsize >= 0x80000000UL){	/* for sanity, overflow */
> 		werrstr("invalid allocation size");
> 		return nil;
> 	}


malloc(size) // size >= 2GB
is checked by this.
currently, this restriction is for both 9pc and 9pc64.

On 2014/05/04, at 14:24, Kenji Arisawa <arisawa@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp> wrote:

> It seems malloc() has a problem with large size allocation.