On 2/21/07, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
> It's not so much the amount of memory as where it's allocated. A 10Mb
> allocation that involves >2Gb values will still go kaboom (There was
> supposed to be an earth-shattering Kaboom, where was the earth-
> shattering kaboom?)
>
> Some OSs allocate from low adresses; some from high. Some do weird
> things.

Right - I see this a lot more under Linux than under OS X, for example.

Avi