Maybe it's not a bug, but a feature.
Steven might wish to bring the issue to the attention of the dev team
(openssl-...@openssl.org) for code inspection, discussion and an agreed
way forward with the core team.

Cheers Lakhsa


On 04/07/2014 18:33, Jakob Bohm wrote:
> On 7/3/2014 8:52 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote:
>> My Windoze knowledge is hazy, and from the distant past, but if you're
>> running this in a CMD window, you may simply need to increase the
>> available memory from the default for that process.
>>
>
> Too hazy, I am afraid.  Those memory settings are/were only for the
> virtual MS-DOS machine when opening a 16 bit command prompt to run 16
> bit DOS programs. They have no effect (and are not even shown) if the
> programs run in the command window are all compiled for POSIX, OS/2 or
> Windows.
>
> (The POSIX and OS/2 cases apply only to NT-based x86_32 editions of
> Windows, such as Windows 7.  The old MS-DOS based Windows 3.2 and older
> do not allow Windows programs either in a command prompt, except via
> 3rd party hacks).
>
> My memory comments were directed to the possibility he was running the
> command from a very memory-constrained environment embedded into a
> Cisco router.
>
> Anyway Laksha found it was a bug in the openssl binary.
>
> Enjoy
>
> Jakob

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