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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: I: G77 160 MB memory allocation limit
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:39:55 +0100
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----Original Message----
>From: Corinna Vinschen
>Sent: 29 April 2005 09:28

> On Apr 27 17:19, Impagnatiello Fabrizio wrote:
>> again
>> 
>> -----Messaggio originale-----
>> Da: Impagnatiello Fabrizio
>> Inviato: mercoledì 27 aprile 2005 17.15

>> No error message, just exit.
>> 
>> After investigation (WEB/mailing list) and testing programs I discovered
>> and verified that a new near 160 MByte allocation limit is induced by
>> cygwin1.dll  
>> 
>> Simple programs compiled with -mno-cygwin flag may allocate up to 1920
>> MByte. 

> Please try the latest Cygwin snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/.
> I tested it with a large array of 1500 Megs in a pretty small application.


  I can confirm that it fixes the NULL dereference in set_myself that I was
investigating!


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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