[Vm-dev] Array new: SmallInteger maxVal

Douglas Brebner squeaklists at fang.demon.co.uk
Thu Oct 8 08:43:34 UTC 2009


John M McIntosh wrote:
>
> It's a issue of what is insane, plus adding boundary checks everywhere
> that is rarely needed.
>
> The correct response for the issue is to throw a out of memory
> exception when the VM figures out it
> can't allocate the 4GB of memory here.
>

Isn't that possible on a 64bit vm/image?


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