Maximum size of data segment used by c program

[devendra.aaru]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Rajat Sharma <fs.rajat at gmail.com> wrote:
> yes there is a limit, look at
>
getrlimit show the size as 4GiGs of RLIMIT_DATA on a 32-bit. which
means that its unlimited?

Thanks,
> # man setrlimit
>
> RLIMIT_DATA
>               The maximum size of the process's data segment (initialized
> data, uninitialized data, and heap).  This limit affects calls to brk(2) and
> sbrk(2), which fail with the error ENOMEM  upon
>               encountering the soft limit of this resource.
>
> -Rajat
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 3:11 PM, devendra.aaru <devendra.aaru at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there any limit on the maximum data segment size used by c programs?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
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