more than 256 Mbyte?

[Francois Veillette]

Maybe it's a stupid question... But did you make sure of the Unix "software"
limit?  did you?

You can check (or double check) the memory limit with the command:
	ulimit -m



François Veillette
mailto:francois.veillette@locusdialogue.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org [ mailto:gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org]On
> Behalf Of Jens Mortensen
> Sent: 7 juillet, 2000 07:21
> To: help-gcc@gnu.org
> Subject: more than 256 Mbyte?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using using the g++ compiler on an IBM-POWER2(160MHz) with 1Gbyte
> of memory.  I would like to use this Gbyte of memory, but there seems to
> be a limit at 256 Mbyte!
>
> The following test.cc program works fine for x=255, but for x=257, it
> fails.
>
> test.cc:
> ----------------------------
> int main()
> {
>     const int x = 255;
>     char* c = new char[x * 1024 * 1024];
> }
> ----------------------------
>
> When I try this test on a GNU/linux-PC, I don't have this problem.
>
> This is my g++ version:
>
> $ g++ -v
> Reading specs from
> /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.2.0/2.95/specs
> gcc version 2.95 19990728 (release)
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
> JJ
>
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