What container to use instead of qbytearray to allow for more ram usage?
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Qbytearray limit is about 4gb , what container to use instead or how to work around for buffer to allow for more space?
@Q139 Hi! Actually QByteArray is limited to about 2GB. But back to your question:
qDebug() << std::numeric_limits< std::vector<char>::size_type >::max();This gives 18446744073709551615 on amd64. Should be enough for the next decade.
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Qbytearray limit is about 4gb , what container to use instead or how to work around for buffer to allow for more space?
@Q139
If you need to open a single block over 2GB of size, you're probably doing something wrong. In any case, you can't have an address that's over the address a pointer can reference, so even with raw pointers there's a limit (a huge one for x64, granted, but it exists), and it's basically what Wieland posted. For a 64 bit pointer you can address about 16 exabytes (exa- means 10^18). -
@Q139
If you need to open a single block over 2GB of size, you're probably doing something wrong. In any case, you can't have an address that's over the address a pointer can reference, so even with raw pointers there's a limit (a huge one for x64, granted, but it exists), and it's basically what Wieland posted. For a 64 bit pointer you can address about 16 exabytes (exa- means 10^18).@kshegunov said:
If you need to open a single block over 2GB of size, you're probably doing something wrong.
Didn't want to say that but: yeah, that was pretty much my first thought, too ;-)
