RE: "couldn't allocate heap" error

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

On 12 November 2006 06:04, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 09:25:39PM -0800, Vincent Castellano wrote:

>> I am running on Vista RC2, 

>>     build/SDL_bmp.lo 4 [main] ? (2844) C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal
>> error - C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 0,
>> base 0xA00000, top 0xAC0000, reserve_size 782336, allocsize 786432,
>>     page_const 4096 4 [main] sh 2652 fork: child -1 - died waiting for
>> longjmp 
>> before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
>> ./libtool: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
>>     5 [main] ? (3376) C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** fatal error -
>> C:\cygwin\bin\sh.exe: *** couldn't allocate heap, Win32 error 0, base
>> 0xC00000, top 0xC10000, reserve_size 61440, allocsize 65536, page_const
>>     4096 6 [main] sh 2488 fork: child -1 - died waiting for longjmp
>> before initialization, retry 0, exit code 0x100, errno 11
>> ./build-scripts/makedep.sh: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

> See:
> 
> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00059.html


  See also
http://blogs.msdn.com/michael_howard/archive/2006/05/26/608315.aspx:

"Windows Vista Beta 2 includes a new defense against buffer overrun exploits
called address space layout randomization. Not only is it in Beta 2, it's on
by default too."

  I would try turning that off if at all possible; it's liable to play merry
hell with rebasing.



    cheers,
      DaveK
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