On Jun 20 2023, Jakub Jelinek via Gcc-patches wrote:

> Is it safe even on 64bit targets?  I mean, doesn't say PowerPC already allow
> full 64-bit virtual address space?  The assumption that one can't have
> more than half of virtual address space allocations is true right now at
> least on x86-64, aarch64 and others, but isn't that something that can
> change with newer versions of CPUs without the need to recompile
> applications (add another level or two of page tables)?

At least s390 can allocate more than half the address space.  That
triggered a failure in gawk.

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