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Re: gcc.exe crashing on Vista 64?

kzinti — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:54:37 +0100

I am running with administrative rights, so this is something else.

I've done some more research and apparently Vista will only allow a non-win32 native app to use 32 megs of RAM (which is completely ridiculous). This is something that wasn't present before (XP, 2000, etc). I can not confirm that this is indeed my problem, but it could be. Microsoft is to fix the issue in SP1.

For now I continue using my previous machine (XP), but this is a (minor) annoyance.

Re: gcc.exe crashing on Vista 64?

Andreas — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:24:54 +0100

The only place I've seen gcc.exe crashing is when you are doing the first build ever on the host OS without admin rights. You need to build at least once with admin rights, and after that you can build with less rights also.

This was on XP machine, however. No experience with Vista.

gcc.exe crashing on Vista 64?

kzinti — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:39:22 +0200

I've just spend about 6h trying to get some version of the Symbian SDK to work on my Vista 64. I've narrowed it down to "gcc.exe" (or "g++.exe") crashing with "Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION". These SDKs are fine on my XP 32bits machine.

Simply calling "gcc.exe somefile.cpp" will crash with an access violation, even with an empty source file.

I've tested the following SDKs: