Re: how to test this piece of C code

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:21:20 -0600, Richard Heathfield wrote
(in article <sOCdnRu3b6LV5W_YRVnyuAA@xxxxxx>):

subramanian100in@xxxxxxxxx, India said:

On Mar 10, 3:27 am, Richard Heathfield <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
subramanian10...@xxxxxxxxx, India said:

I do not understand this. Kindly explain. Does it mean that in real
world applications SIZE_MAX memory won't be asked from malloc/realloc

No, it doesn't mean that.

or there won't be 4GB of input file for testing ?

No, it doesn't mean that, either. It just means that most companies are
unlikely to have a machine containing that much physical RAM.

True enough, unless you happen to be working for a platform vendor or
RAM vendor. I've had access to max-mem configs many times over the
years, most of them while working for hardware manufacturers, not pure
software shops.



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