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Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] malloc limits 
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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 22:46:12 -0600
From: Grant Grundler <grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com>
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Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:38:37PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > I thought there was a flat memory model.  If so, shouldn't it be possible
> > for the data section to expand past 0x80000000?
> 
> There is a flat memory model... libs are mapped at 0x4000'0000 so that's
> not it.  worth looking at /proc/$pid/maps for that process, maybe?

is 0x80000000 the address or the size?
If it's the size then you get up into 0xc0000000 (which is ok).
Getting up into 0xf0000000 - 0xffffffff address is not.

grant