"Charles D. Russell" <worwor at bellsouth dot net> wrote: > Meanwhile, I am trying to find an equivalent problem in C so that it will > get more attention. Unfortunately, I don't know much C. The subsequent > program fails with a segmentation violation if one tries to allocate more > than a few Mb of memory on either my old or my new system. Why? What limit > am I bumping into? > >
By default stack reserve is set to 2MB by ld.exe. Try setting stack reserve higher, eg, -Wl,--stack=0x2000000 will get you 32MB stack reserve Danny http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Exchange IMs with Messenger friends on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile phone. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
