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Subject:	ld: fatal error - cmalloc would have returned NULL
From:	"Yaakov (Cygwin/X)" <yselkowitz AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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Date:	Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:42:24 -0600
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Recently I have been unable to link very large libraries, in particular
libgcj (from gcc-4.5.x) and libQtWebKit (from qt4):

collect2: ld terminated with signal 1 [Hangup]
      2 [main] ld 5544 C:\cygwin17\usr\i686-pc-cygwin\bin\ld.exe: ***
fatal error - cmalloc would have returned NULL

This occurs with recent snapshots, and with both binutils 2.20.51-2 and
a self-built 2.21.  I was able to successfully build gcc-4.5.1 shortly
before 03 October; I last build Qt4 in June.

I have found that this is triggered by the creation of an import library
through the -Wl,--out-implib, flag.  The same link commands, minus the
-Wl,--out-implib, succeed.

Please let me know what further information I can provide.


Yaakov



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