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

[Zan Lynx]

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 reasons which
> I would not explain well) 

If you build your app with the LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag then it can use
all 4GB of virtual space. Of course there are some possible bugs you can
run into and if you're using third-party libraries you may not be able
to fix them.

Check here for some details:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5185406/how-does-the-large-address-aware-flag-work-for-32-bit-applications-on-64-bit-com
http://msdn.microsoft.com/ja-jp/isv/bb190527%28l=en-us%29

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