>> How comes nobody in other OSes noticed ? Well, people probably did, and >> tweaked their allocators to "work", by using preferably the low address >> space, >> and having addresses that increase slowly, so that a lot of pointers are >> below >> 4GB, and a lot of pointer diffs are under 4GB. > > Or you could just be engaging in an ad hominem attack without actually > looking at their implementations and assuming they're not doing it > right because they're not you or your favorite platform. But hey, we > don't know anyone who'd do *that* in the OpenBSD community. Right?
This is baiting. There might have been instances of attacks in the past, I don't know. But in this particular case, Marc is absolutely right. OpenBSD is late to the bigmem party but when they get there, they try and raise issues which benefit everybody.
