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Description
Using numpy-1.11.1 with the patch for issue #7813 on 64-bit Python, creating an array of size=0 several times raises MemoryError on a Windows 10 system with 32 GB RAM:
Python 2.7.12 (v2.7.12:d33e0cf91556, Jun 27 2016, 15:24:40) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
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>>> import numpy
>>> a = numpy.zeros((0, 2**31-1))
>>> a.size
0
>>> a = numpy.zeros((0, 2**31-1))
>>> a = numpy.zeros((0, 2**31-1))
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
MemoryErrorAccording to the the VMMap tool, every call to numpy.zeros((0, 2**31-1)) allocates ~16GB on the heap.
I would not expect the creation of an array of size=0 to fail with MemoryError (64-bit) or ValueError (32-bit).