Re: Big arrays (confusion over FAQ 6.14)

On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:51:12 -0700, in comp.lang.c , Keith Thompson
<kst-u@xxxxxxx> wrote:


The actual statement, from Army1987, was:
| What kind of processor do they have? How wide is their size_t?
| I still think that having more than 4GB on a computer with a 32
| bit processor is *very* silly.

In response to my point about having access to _PCs_ with 8+GB memory.
Looking upthread, I don't see any statement that putting more than
4BG
on a PC is pointless.

*shrug*. Read it any way you prefer. IMHO someone here is being being
gratuitously pedantic.
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Mark McIntyre

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
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