new standard for malloc() suggested

[Ron Natalie <ron>]

In article <1790 at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, braner at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner) writes:
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> Aha, now that we've been reminded of the low ceiling for malloc()'s
> argument (an unsigned int, which on some systems is only 16 bits):

Of course, on many of these machines you can't allocate more than 2**64
bytes of memory (at one time, or ever)...

=Ron