msysgit: Add the --large-address-aware linker directive to the makefile.
commit8af1dc4953da13d13f8a761e5275697dfc16d0f0
authorPierre le Riche <github@pleasedontspam.me>
Mon, 28 May 2012 07:46:54 +0000 (28 09:46 +0200)
committerPat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:28:47 +0000 (22 13:28 +0100)
tree08d9ac80732ccbf396c549066f6d9fb28682d0e2
parentec8e1060776e3e9b3ef56c1ef31cc4487e53fa08
msysgit: Add the --large-address-aware linker directive to the makefile.

This has the effect of increasing the address space from 2GB to 4GB under
64-bit Windows, reducing the likelihood of an "out of memory" error when
e.g.  repacking a large repository.  The test suite passes with this
patch, with and without the MEM_TOP_DOWN flag added to all VirtualAlloc
calls.  While this is no guarantee that there are no issues with large
memory support (it could break Git on other setups than mine, for
example), it at least increases the chance that nothing obvious goes wrong
(such as errors introduced by faulty sign extension, say, with ssize_t).

[PT: Resolves github issue #12]

Signed-off-by: Pierre le Riche <github@pleasedontspam.me>
Signed-off-by: Pat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
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