Ger wrote:
> This is most likely due to limits inside the application, not the OS

Errr, no. It's because a 32-bit address can only address 4G. What would 
you have malloc() return for the fifth gig of memory? The "limit inside 
the application" would be one of not manually implementing 
bigger-than-32-bit pointers and its own swap space.

Most people who went from 16-bit 32-bit processors stopped worrying 
about implementing more per-process storage than available address 
space. Of course, it was all the rage being able to edit a file bigger 
than 64K back in 8080 days. :-)

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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      They're not flat."

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