9 Jun
2016
9 Jun
'16
8:25 p.m.
On 06/09/16 at 10:11pm, Tobias Stöckmann wrote:
On June 9, 2016 at 7:31 PM Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> wrote: I don't follow your logic. SSIZE_MAX is only guaranteed to be at least 32,767. PATH_MAX can easily be larger than that without coming close to exhausting my system's resources.
apg
If SSIZE_MAX is just 32,767, then SIZE_MAX is 65,535. With such a small amount of addressable space, your resources are very quickly exhausted. Let alone that I don't remember a 16 bit memory operating system that is still supported.
SIZE_MAX is the maximum size of individual objects, not the entire addressable space.