Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4199513B.61E823D3@dessent.net> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:00:43 -0800 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with Allocation in Cygwin 1.3.2 References: <6.0.0.22.2.20041115161219.0390e710@qcmail1.qualcomm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Sid Ray Chaudhuri wrote: > I am getting the following error when running gcc on Windows XP. Similar > errors are also seen on a few other Cygwin utilities. > > C:\utils\cygwin\lib\gcc-lib\i686-pc-cygwin\2.95.3-5\cpp0.exe: *** Couldn't > reserve space for cygwin's heap (0x2420000) in child, cygheap, Win32 error 487 > > Could any of you please let me know what the problem is and/or whether > there is a fix available. Thanks. Try using a version of Cygwin that's not ancient. The current and supported version is 1.5.12. IIRC there were major changes to the heap allocation code circa 1.5.8, about 7 months ago. (gcc 2.95 is old, broken, and unsupported as well.) Brian -- 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/