Re: RE:Authentication / base64 encoder? -- C400-L

Jon Paris wrote:

  >> Below is the code and it had no problems allocating 16,000,000 bytes to
each of 50 pointers.  Am I missing or misunderstanding something?

No Mel - but I must be.  And if Bruce says it is closer to 4G I would never
doubt his word.  I am obviously confusing User Spaces with heap size.  Even
so your results appear to fly in the face of some other test results that
were reported on Midrange(?) a while back.

I wrote the following little program to test. On linux if ends with:

james@stumpy:~/progs> ./bigmalloc
malloc() failed, size: 1000000000, errno: 12
Not enough memory

On V4R1 it ends with:

malloc() failed, size: 100000000, errno: 0

linux box has 256M of RAM, twice that for swap. V4R1 has 128M RAM. Interestingly on iSeries errno is not set to ENOMEM. Don't know why.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <errno.h>

int
main ()
{
  char *string;
  int i;
  unsigned long power;

for(i=1;;i++) { power = pow (10, i); string = (char *) malloc (sizeof (char) * power); if (string == NULL) { printf ("malloc() failed, size: %d, errno: %d\n", sizeof (char) * power, errno); if (errno == ENOMEM) { printf ("Not enough memory\n"); } break; } free (string); } return (0); }

James Rich

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