[x264-devel] Win32 large-address-aware?

[Jason Garrett-Glaser]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Jeppe Øland <uxorious at acon.dezign.dk> wrote:
>> > Adding the option LargeAddressAware="2" to the vcproj linker section
>> > would all but eliminate the problem for essentially all users.
>>
>> Perhaps you haven't thought your cunning plan all the way through, but
>> x264 does not support any variants of the Microsoft VC series because
>> said compilers do not support the language that x264 is written in
>> (C99).  Additionally, practically all GUIs use an x264 build that is
>> compiled with gcc.
>
> As you may be able to figure out, I have not actually compiled the code myself.
> I found a problem with every executeable out there, and wrote about it
> here so that hopefully somebody would fix it.
> It seems like that it not likely to happen :-(
>
> Since there are vcproj files in the repository, I assumed that
> somebody was compiling with VC - butI guess they are there for some
> other reason?
>
> A quick google for "gcc largeaddressaware" shows that there is an
> option for GCC/LD to do the same. --large-address-aware. (Since I have
> never used GCC for Windows development, I am not sure if there are any
> issues or if it's even the right thing).

I just tested that here and it doesn't seem to help at all--x264 still
crashes with a malloc failure at ~1.92 gigabytes memory allocated
(Windows XP 32-bit).  I only have 2 gigabytes of RAM though, so I'll
see if I get any better results on a machine with more RAM...

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