Re: Workarounds for LuaJIT's 4GB limit

  • From: Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:39:51 +0200

* Mike Pall:

> Florian Weimer wrote:
>> From this, I infer that all valid userspace pointers on x86_64 are
>> representable as lightuserdata values.
>
> Solaris also uses the negative x64 address space in user mode (for
> stacks and default mmap). I have no plans to deal with this oddity.

Wow.  I didn't know this was even supported by the silicon.

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