On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 4:47 AM Ian Sutton <i...@ce.gl> wrote: > > Following the revalations made by a misc@ poster, I am happy to present > the following patch which increases the width of size_t from "long" to > "long long", which is twice the width as before, on all platforms. This > has the effect of doubling the amount of available memory regardless of > the physical capacity installed memory hardware. Additionally, it > enables PAE on all 32 bit platforms without incurring performance costs.
This may go against a direct recommendation in the C standard for some or all of these platforms. "The types used for size_t and ptrdiff_t should not have an integer conversion rank greater than that of signed long int unless the implementation supports objects large enough to make this necessary." Presumably the unnamed misc@ poster was unsafely mixing pointers and integer types.
