how crazy...

[Brian Dessent]

Carlo Florendo wrote:

> ...that vista restricts the memory gcc-compiled programs can allocate:
> 
> http://www.trnicely.net/misc/vista.html
> 
> TJM, aren't they? :)

Article is borderline FUD if you try to apply it to anything relevant,
i.e. MinGW or Cygwin.  What he's talking about there has absolutely
nothing to do with the standard Win32 port of gcc that is used by Cygwin
or MinGW.  That article is talking about DJGPP, i.e. 16 bit
compatibility mode DOS apps, from the dinosaur pre-windows period.  It
sounds to me like MS just changed some maximum memory allocatable
parameter of NTVDM and this has zero to do with gcc and everything to do
with some interaction between the DJGPP runtime and the operating
system.

Brian