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On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:22:30PM +0000, Jens Dill wrote:
>What you write makes it appear that CygWin simply will not support
>large executables that reference the CygWin DLL and are also launched
>from a CygWin shell.  I can't believe that nobody has found a better
>workaround than:
>
>  (a) not using the CygWin DLL (not an option for us)
>  (b) not launching from a CygWin shell (not an option for us)
>  (c) reducing the memory space required by the program (again, not possible)
>  (d) tinkering randomly with the stack size
>
>Does anyone else know of another way around this problem?

How about:

   (e) Looking into the source code and coming up with a fix rather than
       a workaround

?

cgf

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