On 10/15/2012 05:05, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> I have an application which allocates lot of memory
> and on Windows XP the mingw build (rubenvb 4.7.2)
> is much worse than a msvc2010 build.
> 

Have you tried finding out which part of the application is taking up
the memory?

> I assume this has to do with the C runtime library
> used by mingw which is from 1998 (Visual Studio 6),
> when GBs were only found on hard disks.
> 

Why would you think this?

> Is it possible to use a newer C runtime library for mingw?
> 

Sure, there are a few specs file mods for GCC about, you can search
mingw-users from the mingw.org mailing list for details.

Do note however that mingw* is very much built around MSVCRT.DLL, so you
may encounter some bugs if you switch from the default. You may need to
rebuild GCC and all your libraries.



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