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Re: Cygwin Memory Allocation and heap_chunk_in_mb


On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Brian Ford wrote:

> That's only half of it.  You need to set the
> IMAGE_FILE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE flag in the executable's COFF header.

Let me check I've got clear what to do: I need to

    download the source code for the cygwin ld package

    apply the patch of 6th May, 2004, which will change the coffcode.h header

    ./configure, make, make install

to get my extra gigabyte.  If I make my program a bit more efficeint,
it _might_ fit in 2.5GB, so this is worth a try.  Failing that (and
going off-topic,) would I get any more by installing some distro
(probably Debian) with a Linux kernel (probably 2.4.18?)

BTW, anyone got any idea why I'm getting only 1.5GB, rather than the
2GB XP is supposed to make available, now?

-- 

Thanks

Dan

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