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

[Thomas Dähling]

You are also running a 64 Bit OS version? If not, then you get only 32
bits because the OS (and the dev libs shipped with it) limit you
there.

2009/7/31 Patrick Vollebregt <jeet.nl at gmail.com>:
> Sorry, that's not true.
>
> On an AMD64 Linux and int in a GCC compiled program is 32 bits.
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>
>> 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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