Error linking under Cygwin: fork: can't reserve memory for stack XXX, Win32 error 487

[Dave Korn]

----Original Message----
>From: Martin Egholm Nielsen
>Sent: 03 March 2005 08:42


>>> However, as my application is growing in size (number of .o files) I
>>> suddenly get the following fault message from collect2.exe when trying
>>> to link them all together:
>>> 
>>> $ powerpc-405-linux-gnu-gcj --main=foo.Main *.o
>>>
C:\cygwin\opt\crosstool\powerpc-405-linux-gnu\gcc-3.4.0-glibc-2.2.5\libexec\
gcc\powerpc-405-linux-gnu\3.4.0\collect2.exe
>>> (1740): *** fork: can't reserve memory for stack 0x40000 - 0x240000,
>>> Win32 error 487 <REPEATED>

>>     --stack <size>                     Set size of the initial stack
>>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Hum, these options are not available in my crosscompiler:
> 
> $ powerpc-405-linux-gnu-gcc -v --help 2>&1 | grep stack


  You would need to add it to the CFLAGS when _building_ the crossbinutils
linker rather than to the command line when _using_ it, so that the compiled
crossversion of collect2 runs with a bigger stack.

  If indeed that is the underlying problem.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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