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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
