Interesting!
I'd say that this is because cygwin allocates head for the command line, and
doesn't have a built-in limit (AFAIK).
libtoolers - perhaps the max command line test should stop somewhere before
the multi-megabyte point ?
Rob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Max Bowsher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Cygwin Maillist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 9:28 PM
Subject: Odd Error: 'coudn't commit memory for cygwin heap' during
configuration of binutils
> Whilst configuring binutils for cross-compilation, I encountered the above
> error.
> (Binutils version is latest as of date of this mail)
>
> Whilst configuring libtool, the computer almost crashed, at the line
> 'findinf maximum length of command line arguments' or similar. (CPU
> utilization so high that mouse could only respond every ~10secs). This
ended
> with the error 'coudn't commit memory for cygwin heap Win32 error 8'.
Later,
> the same configure step showed the result '(cached) 2359297'
>
> This is hardly a critical error, since the build proceeded, but I thought
I
> would just bring it to your attention.
>
> Max.
>
>
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