Re: [Pan-users] pan for Windows crashes when reading large newsgroup

2012-10-24 Thread Duncan
Zan Lynx posted on Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:25:49 -0600 as excerpted: > For MinGW it is --large-address-aware given to the "ld" linker. From the > search results I read, MinGW support libraries will work fine since > their code is almost entirely from Unix where addresses > 2GB have been > common. I b

Re: [Pan-users] pan for Windows crashes when reading large newsgroup

2012-10-24 Thread Zan Lynx
On 10/24/2012 8:24 AM, Steve Davies wrote: > On 23 October 2012 18:56, Zan Lynx wrote: >> On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 14:24 +0100, Steve Davies wrote: >>> 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 >>> addresse

Re: [Pan-users] pan for Windows crashes when reading large newsgroup

2012-10-24 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/24/2012 07:24 AM, Steve Davies wrote: 1) It assumes a Microsoft development environment against MS .dll files 2) It assumes you are writing the code-base with MS in mind. To be fair, if the first assumption is correct, the second one will almost always be right too. ___

Re: [Pan-users] pan for Windows crashes when reading large newsgroup

2012-10-24 Thread Steve Davies
On 23 October 2012 18:56, Zan Lynx wrote: > On Fri, 2012-10-19 at 14:24 +0100, Steve Davies wrote: >> 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 r