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gg-alloc

A custom allocator that only returns pointers above 2G

by Badel2

1 stable release

1.0.0 Jul 2, 2022

#565 in Memory management

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Used in 3 crates (via wasm-bindgen-test)

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gg-alloc

A custom allocator that always returns pointers in the 2G-4G range.

That is, pointers that are valid u32 but not valid i32. This is used to test the wasm-bindgen crate, which used to have problems when dealing with more than 2GB of memory in WebAssembly because of this.

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