http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50937

Janne Blomqvist <jb at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

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--- Comment #5 from Janne Blomqvist <jb at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-10-31 19:01:59 
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(In reply to comment #4)
>     I've now tested the same program on a 64-bit CentOs machine 
>     with 16-Gb RAM, but wasn't able to reproduce the problem there:

Yes, because on a 64-bit platform the size calculation is done with 64-bit
integers, and long before such integers overflow the OS decides to deny the
allocation request (as can be seen e.g. by the different error code).

I'm not really seeing any bug here.

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