On Mon, 12 May 2014 14:14:28 -0400, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Monday, 12 May 2014 at 17:52:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/12/2014 7:46 AM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
pointing at it is roughly 1/256. This problem is just about eliminated
with
64-bit pointers.
Not generally true. This presumes that the heap is not in the lower
region of the address space and that you don't use 64 bit ints on the
stack.
I was thinking in terms of purely a random number happening to point at
heap data. Practically speaking, I don't know the true likelihood based on
the heap address scheme of 64-bit OSes, but I know that we always have a
complainer who will try and do an array-append test on 32-bit code, and
end up exhausting memory unexpectedly.
-Steve
