when using the LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag, can my 32bit program access 4GB of address space, or only 3GB of address space?
why?
when using the LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag, can my 32bit program access 4GB of address space,
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when using the LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag, can my 32bit program access 4GB of address space, or only 3GB of address space?
why?
A 32 bit process with LARGEADDRESSAWARE set can address 4GB on 64 bit Windows. It can do so because that’s how the wonderful engineers at Microsoft implemented it.
It’s documented here.