[Qt-interest] QSharedMemory::create takes an int... why?

[Patrick Vollebregt]

Sorry, that's not true.

On an AMD64 Linux and int in a GCC compiled program is 32 bits.


> As per definition, int is always the width of the cpu register. So on
> 64 bit machines an int should be 64 bit, while on 16 bit machines it
> should be 16 bit.
>
> /Thomas
>
> 2009/7/31 Patrick Vollebregt <jeet.nl at gmail.com>:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a good reason that QSharedMemory::create takes an int?
>>
>> I need to allocate a block of shared memory with a size over 4GB (on a
>> 64bit system), which is not possible with QSharedMemory at the moment.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Patrick Vollebregt.
>>
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