Memory allocation problem

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bearophile wrote:
> In a small program on Windows XP I have to allocate a large chunk of RAM, about 1847 MB of RAM. This PC has 2 GB RAM. So I use std.c.stdio.malloc(), with DMD v1.042 (or v2.031). But it's not able to allocate it, and produces at runtime:
> Error: Access Violation
> 
> An equal program written in C and compiled with GCC, that allocates the same amount of memory using malloc, is able to run (with just a little hard disk trashing at the beginning).
> Do you know why DMD doesn't allow me to allocate more RAM, and can this be fixed?
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

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