std.zip expand: memory allocation failed

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at gmail.com
Mon Oct 25 20:50:40 UTC 2021


On 10/24/21 8:00 AM, Selim Ozel wrote:

> It turns out my computer was literally running out of memory as the file 
> was getting unzipped. For some reason  to uncompress a 1-gig file with 
> uncompressed size of 4-gig, Zip Archive of D-Lang tries to use more than 
> 16 gig of RAM. I don't know why. Maybe I missed something. I use a 
> Windows 10, DMD v2.091 with x86_mscoff.

Wait, x86 is 32-bit. Max address space is 4GB. So maybe it was just 
trying to use 4GB and running out of memory?

-Steve


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