new and GC.malloc fail, core.stdc.malloc works

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John Colvin:

> I'm getting OutOfMemoryErrors on some machines when calling 
> GC.malloc (or new) for anything large (more than about 1GB), 
> where core.stdc.malloc works fine.

I think that when you go in territories where most people have 
not done much coding in D, like allocating than 1 GB in one shot, 
you hit some bugs. In general if some part of D is not used a 
lot, you have to assume it's buggy. Please report in Bugzilla the 
problems you have located.

Bye,
bearophile