msysgit: Add the --large-address-aware linker directive to the makefile.
commitdf573d9ca61c0e01c33de68838bd2842e26c4a76
authorPierre le Riche <github@pleasedontspam.me>
Mon, 28 May 2012 07:46:54 +0000 (28 09:46 +0200)
committerJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Tue, 29 May 2012 02:50:47 +0000 (28 21:50 -0500)
tree9aa1587394e6ce2b110bfc7c623bfef6863584ae
parente404868d0c78abf6a3039446a8b362bd779951b0
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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