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Re: segmentation fault when load more then 2.1 GB


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: Re: segmentation fault when load more then 2.1 GB
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:15:21 -0400

On  6-Oct-2004, Daniel Heiserer <address@hidden> wrote:

| At least one object is larger then 2GB. I submitted a patch on February 
| 12th 2003 which fixes that problem. I never got a feedback concerning 
| the question for the "adverse effects" also I haven't seen the patch 
| included till today. Unfortunately the people answering the thread 
| focused on the bad timing of the "rand" function I used to demonstrate 
| the usage :-(
| 
| The patch was:
| http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/bug-octave.2003/msg00306.html

Your one-line change only allowed the >2GB allocation to succeed.
After that, you would surely run into some problems with indexing,
etc.

| I am willing to help fixing all this "size" limitations quickly.

Please see the recent discussion on the help list with the subject
"matrix sizes".

jwe



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