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Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 12:08:03 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: I: G77 160 MB memory allocation limit
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On Apr 29 10:39, Dave Korn wrote:
> ----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!

Yeah, it was pretty easy to follow through when encountering this NULL
pointer.  Now there's no default allocation before address 0x60000000,
so there's about 1.5 Gigs left for text and data segments again.


Corinna

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