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Re: Cygwin Memory Allocation and heap_chunk_in_mb
- From: Dan Hatton <dan dot hatton at btinternet dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: Tim Prince <tprince at computer dot org>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:12:57 +0100
- Subject: Re: Cygwin Memory Allocation and heap_chunk_in_mb
- References: <Pine.CYG.4.58.0406301444280.2112@ws3-mirp.geol.ucl.ac.uk> <6.0.1.1.0.20040630070530.01f29c70@imap.myrealbox.com> <Pine.CYG.4.58.0406301631490.2268@ws3-mirp.geol.ucl.ac.uk> <Pine.CYG.4.58.0406301213030.4988@fordpc.vss.fsi.com>
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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