Re: Question re: GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64

2005-01-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:58:07PM +0300, alexei kozlov wrote:
 Hello, Gurus.
 
 My fellow asked me if GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64 supports 64bit memory 
 pointers. He means is it possible to allocate *very* big  (4GB and more) 
 chunks of storage?

This is a function of the FreeBSD kernel, not of the C compiler.  The
answer is 'yes'.

Kris


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RE: Question re: GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64

2005-01-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt

Ask on the freebsd-amd64 mailing list.

Ted

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 Hello, Gurus.
 
 My fellow asked me if GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64 supports 64bit memory 
 pointers. He means is it possible to allocate *very* big  (4GB and more) 
 chunks of storage?
 
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Re: Question re: GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64

2005-01-07 Thread Steve Kargl
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:55:24PM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
 
  My fellow asked me if GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64 supports 64bit memory 
  pointers. He means is it possible to allocate *very* big  (4GB and more) 
  chunks of storage?

Yes. 

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Steve
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Re: Question re: GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64

2005-01-07 Thread Brooks Davis
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  My fellow asked me if GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64 supports 64bit memory 
  pointers. He means is it possible to allocate *very* big  (4GB and more) 
  chunks of storage?

Yes, there wouldn't be much point otherwise.

-- Brooks

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Question re: GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64

2005-01-07 Thread alexei kozlov
Hello, Gurus.
My fellow asked me if GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64 supports 64bit memory 
pointers. He means is it possible to allocate *very* big  (4GB and more) 
chunks of storage?

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