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SubjectRe: Big Fix for 2.2.1
> Alas, yes.  If there is a power of two rule, it should surely be documented in
> the code. The existing code in page.h encourages people to make improper
> changes. The only other value I know of that works correctly is 0x80000000.

It's really a bug in the documentation. It has to be -2^n, therefore the
only values that make sense are 0xc0000000 and 0x80000000. 0xe0000000 etc.
is also possible to get maximum process address space on machines with
small physical memory.

Have a nice fortnight
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Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@ucw.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers..."

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