[pypy-dev] Visual Studio 2015 build strange behavior

[Matti Picus]

On 08/04/17 19:26, Sergey Kurdakov wrote:

> while compiling pypy lack of memory is an issue even on machines with
> more memory that required for compilation.
>
> Basically pypy  will crash when achieves 2 Gb memory limit even with
> setting pypy to use extended memory
> I  suppose it starts to interfere with system memory addresses which
> are located exactly at 2 Gb starting point,
Are you using 64-bit windows? Then using the editbin /largeaddressaware 
trick as mentioned on the windows build page you should be able to 
access all your memory from the 32-bit python executable used for 
translation.
Matti