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From: "Elkin" <ekgr AT hotmail DOT com>
Subject: Re: Program too big to fit in memory - Previous hints didn't work
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 21:12:38 -0400
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Thanks all you guys for your help.

Gerrit has solved the problem -thanks a lot Gerrit- and the program runs in
my pc

I'm afraid the error prompt was a bit misleading but I don't understand yet
why it was raised.

Elkin

"E G" <ekgr AT hotmail DOT com> wrote in message
news:Sea1-F5181TbdkSmLAz00012dd9 AT hotmail DOT com...
> Hi,
>
> I have the latest Cygwin/cygnome environment (Cygwin 1.5.5.1 dll)
installed
> two weeks ago for compiling a working program already tested in linux and
> solaris. The program uses the X libraries Xt, Xpm, Xaw and X11 in an
> interface window written in C and runs a program written in Fortran.
>
> I compiled the interface program written in C (xgraph.c) using gcc -x -o
> xgraph.o xgraph.c -I/usr/X11R6/include and it created the object file
> without problems.
>
> I then compiled the fortran code and linked the libraries and required
> object files -including the C program- as I did in Linux (I just changed
the
> paths for the includes and the libraries) and the names of the libraries

> -lXpm -> -lXpm.dll, -lX11 ->-lX11.dll). It compiled fine and I got my
object
> dependencies ok and the exe file without problems. But, when I tried to
run
> the program I got a "Program too big to fit in memory" error message and
it
> didn't run. The program is 1.4 MB and my computer has 256 MB RAM and 9 GB
> hard disk free space (defragmented, i.e., single chunk).
>
> I run the max_memory program included in Chapter 3 of the users manual I
> think, and it reports 1560 kB. So I'm discarding real memory problems.
>
>
> I have tried:
> 1. increasing Cygwin memory restriction using regtool  for
> memory_chunk_in_mb to set 2048 kB. Nope.
> 2. compiling the code with -fconserve-space, -fno-inline, -Wl... heap and
> stack.... They Reduce the exe file size a bit, but still didn't work.
> Program too big to fit in memory.
> 3. stripping the exe file using strip -s <exe_file>. Reduces the size of
the
> executable by 1/3 but still getting the same error message.
>
> I run out of options, so I hope someone can give a hint what to do to make
> my program run.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Elkin
> 4rd Yr Aerospace Eng student @ Ryerson.ca
>
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