Windows Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 07:41:28PM -0400, Sy Ali wrote:
> I read it differently.. as it seems to read that it is a problem for
> anyone who writes with one codebase which is to be deployed broadly
> without any special vista-specific tweaks.
> 
> Yes, old software may not generally require more than 32MB of memory..
> but some of it sure does.

I read it as: Anything using the standard C interfaces like malloc()
is limited to 32MB, while anything using the Win32 API calls can have
as much as it wants.

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