Now that J8.02 is officially released, I guess this is where to report
installation problems. To bad I didn't report it earlier.

In system/util/configure.ijs, line 71 MemoryLimit from config/base.cfg is
handled.

I wanted to limit J's memory to about 1G, so I set MemoryLimit to 1e9 to
prevent J from excessive paging. As in as described for (9!:21) and works
as described:
  9!:21]1e9
  9!:20 ''
1073741824

But the expression on that line expects MemoryLimit to be a number to raise
2 to, in my case, 30. The comments as the top of base.cfg imply that
MemoryLimit should be as described for (9!:21).

Either the comment needs to be changed or simply change line 71 to:
   9!:21 MemoryLimit

(9!:21) rounds up its argument to the next power of 2, so there is no need
to go to all the trouble to make sure that the number passed is a power of
2. I suggest changing line 71 as people think in terms of how much memory
they want, not having to convert it to a power of 2.
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