On 28 September 2014 18:49, Reimar Döffinger <reimar.doeffin...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 10:17:15AM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote: > > Allows 32 bit version of FFmpeg to use up to 4 GB of RAM > > instead of just 2 GB on Windows if the OS can provide it. > > Any other comments? > Note the documentation for that option: > > The /LARGEADDRESSAWARE option tells the linker that the application can > > handle addresses larger than 2 gigabytes. > This flag is _only_ used to signal that an application can deal > with addresses that use more than 31 address bits. > I.e. it is only for those horribly misdesigned programs that > thought "oh, let's store some extra stuff in that unused high bit > of the address". Which FFmpeg definitely does not. > There is no indication that ptrdiff_t limitations or similar have > any relevance to whether one should set this or not. > There shouldnt be any problem with this at all as it basically just sets a flag in the output dll/exe (which can be manually set after compilation anyway). LARGEADDRESSAWARE should probably be added for msvc/icl as well. _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
