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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 17:00:43 -0800
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Problem with Allocation in Cygwin 1.3.2
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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

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