False alarm about exception C0000005

[Dave Korn]

On 25/05/2010 12:47, Magnus Reftel wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I discovered that the problem does not only affect Cygwin. It was just
> that I did not have any large binaries outside cygwin. Large
> executables built using VS Express also crash with the same exception.
> I guess the  IT department installed some broken crap on our machines
> again. Sorry for the confusion!

  I had just about reached the same conclusion.  The limit to an executable
size on my machine was somewhere between 542048077 and 542048589 bytes, and
the only failure mode I observed was a proper error message from bash:

> $ ./big.exe
> bash: ./big.exe: Cannot allocate memory

  So, I reckon you probably have some interfering BLODA, maybe a DLL that is
injected into all processes and tries to allocate some memory at startup or
something like that and doesn't handle a failure well.

    cheers,
      DaveK


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