Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 11:03:50 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Subject: Re: Bug report: gcc + cygwin Message-ID: <20001108110350.H17097@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: ; from Emilian.Medve@motorola.com on Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:33:28PM +0200 On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:33:28PM +0200, Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1 wrote: >This is my program (it's also attached to this e-mail): > >#include >#include >#include > >int main(void) >{ > int n=0; > > while(dup(1)!=-1)n++; > printf("Size of FILE0 table is: %d.\n",n+3); > exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); >} > >Compilation command line: gcc -Wall -o dup dup.c > >And this is the output: > >d:\Profiles\emmedve1\LOCALS~1\Temp\dup.exe: *** couldn't commit memory for >cygwi >n heap, Win32 error 487 In other words, you tried to grow the fd table without bounds and eventually cygwin ran out of memory. You can't find the size of the file table this way. It's a terrible method for doing this. Cygwin's file table doesn't have an upper limit. Well, I guess 2^32 is probably an upper limit. >If I use -mno-cygwin everythig works as expected (fine). Well then, problem solved. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com