can a 32 bit process use more than 2GB?

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

> Hi,
>
> I´m running a 64bit kernel but the application is a 32bit application.
>
> So I suposse that I only can address 4Gb.
>
> But I´m still with the doubt about handling a 5G file. Can´t I open a 5 GB
> file with the 32bi version of vi? (in the future I will rotate them but
> now
> I have a lot of file of that size and more)

Do you have any programming experience? For 32 bit systems, a std. integer
is 4 bytes.

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