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Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:44:17 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Memory problem
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In-Reply-To: <230667FC62B4D311BBA90050DA41CFD759D3D9@ddipdc.ddi.nl>; from p.boncz@datadistilleries.com on Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:15:23PM +0100

On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:15:23PM +0100, Peter Boncz wrote:
>Christopher,
>
>Some applications like to make use of so-called "anonymous virtual memory"
>for allocating (huge) chunks of memory outside the malloc heap. In unix this
>functionality is usually available through mmap()-ing on the special file
>/dev/null or thourgh a special mmap() flag. In my application, I abstract
>this functionality is a small system-specific library that in my cygnus port
>actually directly uses VirtualAlloc().
>
>sorry for that.

I don't think this has any bearing whatsoever on what the user was doing.
He didn't mention that he was using any Windows functions.  I think that
it is likely that my pointer to "heap_chunk_in_mb" will probably solve
his problem if this actually turns out to be an out-of-memory condition.

If this is just a simple Windows program, however, maybe he should contact
the mingw list.

cgf

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