Re: error: memory exhausted or requested size too large for range of Octave's index type -- trying to return to prompt

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

On 2 November 2012 14:53, marco atzeri <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 11/2/2012 7:25 PM, japindado wrote:
>>
>> This topic has been discussed before, but I have read all of the threads
>> and
>> none of them have the answer to my issue, so I am posting here hoping
>> someone can help...  Basically, Octave will not allow the total memory
>> consumed by all variables to exceed ~1.5GB...  My machine runs Windows7
>> Enterprise N 64-bit on an Intel i7 with 9GB RAM. Any help would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>
>
> I am almost sure the windows version is a 32bit version,
> as such no more than 2GB are available for programs and data.

This is just a limitation of the Windows binary, right? Not of Octave
itself? Does it suffice to compile a 64-bit binary without following
these instructions?

    
http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Compiling-Octave-with-64_002dbit-Indexing.html

- Jordi G. H.