cygheap base mismatch detected

[Chris Taylor]

Dill, Jens (END-CHI) wrote:
> Dave Korn writes:
> 
>>>Unfortunately for me, (e) is impractical.  It's not clear whether
>>>it is my source code or CygWin's that I need to fix, 
>>
>> Have you actually *tried* this application of yours under Cygwin and
>>discovered that it indeed *is* one of the rare ones that actually runs
> 
> into
> 
>>this problem, or are you getting your knickers in a twist over some
> 
> entirely
> 
>>theoretical issue that may just as likely never happen?
>>
>>
>>>My project time frame doesn't allow for that.   If I read Dave Korn's
>>>posting correctly (along with the others who talk about adjusting the
>>>sizes of Fortran arrays to fix the problem)
>>
>> *Why* are you relying on information that is 12 to 18 months out of date?
>>There's been quite a few check-ins to the cygwin cvs in that period, and
> 
> in
> 
>>case you haven't noticed, we haven't had anyone here running into that
> 
> problem
> 
>>recently, and some of the fortran people said that one of the fixes
> 
> Corinna
> 
>>made _ages_ ago now had solved the problem in their experience, so perhaps
> 
> you
> 
>>should stop hoping to divine the truth from a priori first principles and
>>outdated mailing-list-posts, and get a bit _empirical_ about it?
> 
> 
> Of course I have *tried* the application under CygWin and it does
> indeed actually run into the problem.  Of course I have searched
> the list for more recent information about the problem.  Of course
> I am using a new installation of the latest stable CygWin and
> a machine with sufficient memory and horsepower.
> 
> Not every new poster to the list is a newbie to posting.
> 
> I have done some experimentation.  The "maxmem" program 
> outlined in http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html
> shows me that I have 1.5 Gb of memory available to allocate.
> 
> I can run tests in which I allocate static arrays of increasingly
> large size, and I hit the cygheap base problem *exactly* when I
> try to make an array bigger than 1.5 Gb.
> 
> I can run tests in which I set the --heap option for the linker
> to increasingly large sizes, and I hit the cygheap base problem
> *exactly* when I try to make the heap size larger than 1.5 Gb.
> 
> I can run tests in which I set the --stack option for the linker
> to increasingly large sizes, and I get a "thread handle not set"
> error during execution the minute my stack size exceeds 0.5 Gb.
> Yes, that's 0.5.  I never go to the full 1.5 Gb.
> 
> I did not tinker with --stack or --heap when building my
> executable.  I am positive it has no static arrays larger than
> a few tens of thousands of bytes.  Certainly nowhere near 1.5 Gb.
> The size of the .exe file itself is just over 80 Mb.
> 
> So what is causing the problem?  
> 
>                                   -- Jens Dill
>                                      Endeavor Information Systems
> 
> 

You know, it wouldn't exactly be rocket science to try 1.5.19-4 ...
Dave mentioned that there have been many improvements in the last year 
on this issue - 1.5.18-1 is rather dated now.

It can't hurt to try now, can it?

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