Re: CTs or Cygwins 'fault': fork: can't reserve memory for stack...

[Martin Egholm Nielsen <martin at egholm-nielsen dot dk>]

Hi,

> > I'm trying to link a huge bunch of crosscompiled .o files into a 
> > main-file. However, I (suddenly) get the following fault message from 
> > collect2.exe:
> >
> > C:\cygwin\opt\crosstool\powerpc-405-linux-gnu\gcc-3.4.0-glibc-2.2.5\libexec\gcc\powerpc-405-linux-gnu\3.4.0\collect2.exe 
> > (1740): *** fork: can't reserve memory for stack 0x40000 - 0x240000, 
> > Win32 error 487
> >
> > I was wondering if this was a Cygwin error or Crosstool issue?
> >
> > Dan, I've seen you posting an "answer" similar to this question on the 
> > cygwin list, but I didn't lure what the solution was...
> You're referring to
> http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg01118.html
Exactly :o)

> I did not find a fix for that.  It only happened when running lots of
> programs in parallel.
That's not the situation I'm having - I just have this simple command 
running - unless the linker spawns lots of threads behind my back :-)

> You should probably take this problem to the cygwin mailing list. 
I'll do that then...

> It would help if you could put together a minimal test case (i.e. a 
> shell script that reproduces the problem with toy sources).
I'll start going to the cygwin list :-)

Thanks,
 Martin


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