From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 04:49:19 GMT
Subject: Re: "malloc failed"
Message-ID: <20090130044919.GA18655@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <87pri6qmvm.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com>

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 08:10:05AM -0500, David Abrahams wrote:

> Good work.  I don't know if this matters to you, but I think on a 32-bit
> platform you'll find that size_t, which is supposed to be able to hold
> the size of the largest representable *memory block*, is only 4 bytes
> large:

That should be fine; 32-bit systems can't deal with such large files
anyway, since we want to address the whole thing. Getting around that
would, as Andreas mentioned, involve dealing with large files in chunks,
something that would make the code a lot more complex.

So I think the answer is "tough, if you want files >4G get a 64-bit
machine". Which is unreasonable for a file system to say, but I think is
fine for git.

-Peff