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Author Matt.Mackall
Recipients Matt.Mackall, benjamin.peterson, brett.cannon, eric.smith, ezio.melotti, josh.r, larry, loewis, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date 2014-04-15.21:42:25
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Actually, no, all the size_t types are 64-bit on Windows 64:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit_computing#64-bit_data_models

To confirm this, I found someone nearby with a 64-bit Windows and he had no trouble allocating a 3G string with a = b'a' * 3000000000.
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