On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 04:27:45AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: >> By the way, g++, as well as a program I wrote and compiled with g++, are >> able to allocate 1GB, so I don't think the memory limitation / registry >> switch issue exists in the latest snapshot. > >Well, at least it worked for me using the registry hack with the >released Cygwin version 1.5.18.
The registry setting is still in the latest snapshot. The latest snapshot is quicker to use shared memory when it runs out of memory or when a large chunk of memory is requested. Corinna's recent changes to shared memory handling in the snapshot have made using shared memory for this purpose more attractive so we're using the same shared memory settings in malloc as a normal UNIX system. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
