joyent/node — Issue #2280: new Float64Array(1024*1024*200) crashes
Author: kripken
Created: 2011-12-06 21:57:11+00:00
State: open

On node 0.6.5, doing

`new Float64Array(1024*1024*200)`

leads to a segmentation fault. This is on 32-bit Linux. The array should take 1.6GB, which this machine has (but even if not, an error would be better than a segmentation fault). Creating smaller arrays works fine.