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Re: Problem with Allocation in Cygwin 1.3.2
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:00:43 -0800
- Subject: Re: Problem with Allocation in Cygwin 1.3.2
- Organization: My own little world...
- References: <6.0.0.22.2.20041115161219.0390e710@qcmail1.qualcomm.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Sid Ray Chaudhuri wrote:
> I am getting the following error when running gcc on Windows XP. Similar
> errors are also seen on a few other Cygwin utilities.
>
> C:\utils\cygwin\lib\gcc-lib\i686-pc-cygwin\2.95.3-5\cpp0.exe: *** Couldn't
> reserve space for cygwin's heap (0x2420000) in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487
>
> Could any of you please let me know what the problem is and/or whether
> there is a fix available. Thanks.
Try using a version of Cygwin that's not ancient. The current and
supported version is 1.5.12. IIRC there were major changes to the heap
allocation code circa 1.5.8, about 7 months ago.
(gcc 2.95 is old, broken, and unsupported as well.)
Brian
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