On 19 October 2012 07:08, K Shen <kishs...@yahoo.com> wrote: [snip] > > I have been using a 32 bit x86 Windows XP laptop with 2G of real memory up > to 3-4 months ago, which was replaced by a 64 bit x86-64 Windows 7 laptop > with 4G of real memory. This was about 1-2 months before I noticed the crash > problem, and I don't know if this new configuration is important for the > crashes (I have not seen the crashes on the old laptop). > [snip]
Just a very quick data-point... The Pan installer installs a 32-bit binary. This is the only build environment that I have, so that's all there is. I am not even sure if all of the relevant libraries can be built 64 bit under the mingw environment. A 32 bit app will wun under a 64-bit operating system, but gains none of the benefits. As a result, Pan is limited to the memory addressable by a 32-bit application, which is 2Gb under windows. (32 bits allows 4Gb to be addressed, but 32 bit apps only get 2Gb for a number of reasons which I would not explain well) Hope that helps, Steve _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
