[ Apologies for the duplicate post. I'm trying to get this
retraction/qualification to be added to the original post's thread list,
since my first attempt was not. I'm concerned someone might find the
original via Google and then waste their time. If this second attempt
fails and someone out
Looks like I posted too soon.
I can run SOME Cygwin/gcc programs up to 2.83GB with the changes I mentioned in my first post
(yesterday), but not ALL programs (and not anything useful...). The problem seems to be with
Cygwin's implementation of disk access functions like fscanf() and fgets().
On 64bit systems, /largeaddressaware gives 32bit processes 4GB of address
space, and no need to boot with a special option (well, other than using a
64bit OS!).
search for "largeaddressaware":
http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/06/01/423817.aspx
- Jay
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