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Author pitrou
Recipients eckhardt, jbeezley, loewis, nadeem.vawda, pitrou, rosslagerwall, saa, vstinner, wrobell
Date 2011-02-10.17:06:04
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Le jeudi 10 février 2011 à 17:03 +0000, STINNER Victor a écrit :
> STINNER Victor <victor.stinner@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> 
> Le jeudi 10 février 2011 à 16:41 +0000, Ross Lagerwall a écrit :
> > Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com> added the comment:
> > 
> > 32-bit computers can address up to 4GiB of memory
> 
> ... at least 4 GB. With PAE (Physical Address Extension), we can address
> up to 2^36 bytes. It looks like mmap() do support PAE, I suppose that
> you need 64 bits offset on a 32 bits system to be able to use PAE :-)

We are talking about virtual addresses, not physical addresses. PAE
doesn't magically enlarge your address registers ;)
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