Sebastian:

that code helps a lot.  A standard gcc (no flags) of that code breaks, but if you compile it with gcc -m64, you can address large memory spaces.

So I will try and compile numpy with -m64....

Lou

On Feb 1, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Sebastian Haase wrote:

#include <stdlib.h>

#include <stdio.h>

int main()  {  size_t n;  void *p;  double gb;

 for(gb=10;gb>.3;gb-=.5) {

       n= 1024L * 1024L * 1024L * gb;

       p = malloc( n );

       printf("%12lu %4.1lfGb %p\n",n,n/1024./1024./1024.,p);

       free(p); }  return 0;  }


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