I need to create an array as big as possible on my 32bit Linux computer. What is the biggest array size that my computer can handle? Is it 2^32 ?
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I need to create an array as big as possible on my 32bit Linux computer. What is the biggest array size that my computer can handle? Is it 2^32 ?
I assume it will be somewhere somewhere 2^31 and 2^32, not more, probably even less (part of address space will be taken by libraries and application code). One process cannot access more than 2^32 memory, and some OS mark half of address space for special purposes. Not sure if linux does this or not.
Size of pointer is 32bit, so you can’t get a linear chunk of memory larger than 2^32, no matter what you do. Anything that is not a “linear chunk of memory” can’t be called an array.