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by kabdib 3461 days ago
Often enough; "pack" files in video games are often many GB. Memory-map one of those and there you are . . .
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The parent is taking about >2gb on a 32-bit machine.
So what? You can have up to 64GB of RAM on a 32-bit machine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
But those have to be mapped a slice at a time into virtual addresses.