[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/3] configure: Set large address aware.

[Tobias Rapp]

On 28.09.2014 10:49, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Note the documentation for that option:
>> The /LARGEADDRESSAWARE option tells the linker that the application can
>> handle addresses larger than 2 gigabytes.
> This flag is _only_ used to signal that an application can deal
> with addresses that use more than 31 address bits.
> I.e. it is only for those horribly misdesigned programs that
> thought "oh, let's store some extra stuff in that unused high bit
> of the address". Which FFmpeg definitely does not.

I guess you meant something like "it is [not enabled by default because 
of] those horribly misdesigned programs ..."

I agree that it makes sense to set this flag. A few weeks ago I stumbled 
over an out-of-memory error case with 4 parallel FFV1 encoding outputs 
on Win32 and recompiled FFmpeg with this compiler flag enabled.

This article has some nice info on how the flag affects maximum 
available memory space:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/11/17/3155406.aspx