On 20 November 2007 19:17, Matt Wozniski wrote:
> And, there's no reason that should crash vim. Do you have the
> 1.5 GB of memory that you'd need to open that file?
Umm, you don't need that much memory to open a file, thanks to the wonders of
file-backed virtual memory. But what you probably do need is a 1.5GB empty
hole in your process address space (unless vim is intelligent enough to only
mmap() part of the file at a time), and finding a hole that size is almost
certainly impossible on 32-bit targets without enabling the boot.ini '/3GB'
switch.
However I don't know anything about the internals of vim, so can't be sure
that's the cause. And it's certainly a bug that it doesn't fail gracefully.
cheers,
DaveK
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