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From: Mark Hadfield <m DOT hadfield AT niwa DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: Memory for large arrays in cygwin/g77
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:56:40 +1300
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Dave Korn wrote:
>   It may also be possible to workaround the problem by fooling around with the
> default stack allocation size; this can have knock-on effects which clear up the
> reserved area of the process' memory map that error message is complaining
> about.  
> 
> See 
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-10/msg01188.html
> or 
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-07/msg00646.html for the full gory details,
> and look up the "-Wl,--stack=XXXX" option.  You might need to play around with
> values for the stack size until you find one that helps!

Thanks for the "full gory details" links. They're a bit beyond me at 
first glance, but I will read them more carefully later. In the 
meantime, I can report that mucking about with the stack size via
"-Wl,--stack=XXXX" doesn't do anything useful to increase the 
maximum-array size supported by Cygwin g77 and gfc. Increasing it by, 
say, a factor of 2 over the default (2 MiB IIRC) causes the program to 
exit with no error message but no output. Smaller increases might allow 
a few extra bytes, but no more than that.

-- 
Mark Hadfield            "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m DOT hadfield AT niwa DOT co DOT nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)


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