msysgit: Add the --large-address-aware linker directive to the makefile.
commit9ec032678c332a1a06c1a8170b376ec7e2012877
authorPierre le Riche <github@pleasedontspam.me>
Mon, 28 May 2012 07:46:54 +0000 (28 09:46 +0200)
committerPat Thoyts <patthoyts@users.sourceforge.net>
Tue, 19 Jun 2012 22:22:29 +0000 (19 23:22 +0100)
tree761315f64084b6ae49ef64bb00875fa82dbde654
parent7f12b90757d125e618878ab21762b791ac148673
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>
Makefile