old patch from mandrake for capping of memory with physmem calls

[Mike Frysinger]

find attached a pretty old patch from Mandrake that they are still using ... 
what do you guys think ?  good idea/bad idea ?
-mike

pgp20V_LmGEA3.pgp
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--- textutils-2.0.17/lib/physmem.c.cap  Sun Apr  8 13:31:12 2001
+++ textutils-2.0.17/lib/physmem.c      Sun Apr  8 13:41:37 2001
@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@
 # include <sys/pstat.h>
 #endif
 
+/* Cap physical memory to something sane */
+static double
+physmem_cap (double mem)
+{
+  double max = 1L << (sizeof(void *)*8 - 4);
+  return mem > max ? max : mem;
+}
+
 /* Return the total amount of physical memory.  */
 double
 physmem_total (void)
@@ -52,7 +60,7 @@
        double pages = pss.physical_memory;
        double pagesize = pss.page_size;
        if (0 <= pages && 0 <= pagesize)
-         return pages * pagesize;
+      return physmem_cap(pages * pagesize);
       }
   }
 #endif
@@ -84,7 +92,7 @@
        double pages = psd.psd_free;
        double pagesize = pss.page_size;
        if (0 <= pages && 0 <= pagesize)
-         return pages * pagesize;
+      return physmem_cap(pages * pagesize);
       }
   }
 #endif