misaligned block returned

[Sigbjorn Finne]

Hi,

8 == ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY, which sounds
 reasonable (albeit cryptic) since Win32 has a default user
process size limit of 2Gb.

--sigbjorn

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Marth" <Andreas-Haskell at gmx.net>
To: <glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 07:41
Subject: misaligned block returned


> Hi!
>
> I tried to pass a big heap to a program and get the following error:
> getMBlocks: VirtualAlloc failed with: 8
> main: internal error: getMBlocks: misaligned block returned
>    Please report this as a bug to glasgow-haskell-bugs at haskell.org,
>    or http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ghc/
>
> That happens even for a "Hello world" program. The border is 1956M.
> So +RTS -M1956M -RTS is fine. +RTS -M1957M -RTS yields the error above.
>
> PS: I know that is a big heap and I could probably do with less when I 
> track
> the space leak down, but at the moment it is not worth the effort. I only
> need a single run that passes. (With probably 2.5 - 3 GB memory usage.)
>
> PPS: Please cc any answers to me because I am not subscribed to
> haskell-glasgow-bugs.
>
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