malloc problem

[Kazuhiro Fujieda]

>>> On Mon, 25 Dec 2000 09:51:40 +0900
>>> wakamiya <wakamiya@osaka.email.ne.jp> said:

> I use Cygwin 1.1.6 with WindowsNT Japanese Edition and 
> I have had a problem on malloc.
> As I get a memory block larger than 0x8000000 using malloc,
> malloc returns NULL pointer.
> How do I get a memory block larger than 0x8000000 ?
> Or is it a Windows limitation ?

It is a configurable limitation of the Cygwin DLL. You can
control it through a registry entry.

After you incorporate the following registry file, you can
allocate a memory block up to 256MB. Take care that this entry
isn't available until you terminate all applications of Cygwin.