Thank you for this patch. It has been applied to the 21.1 branch of XEmacs and will appear in XEmacs 21.1.12. - vin Alastair> Here's a patch that reindents some of ntheap.c (it seems Alastair> some horrible oik decided to use Visual C's internal Alastair> editor or something) and adds a call to GetModuleFileName Alastair> to the code that gets run when XEmacs can't allocate its Alastair> heap; the idea is that instead of Alastair> XEmacs cannot start because the memory region required Alastair> by the heap is not available Alastair> (BaseAddress = 0x12345678, AllocationBase = 0x12345678, Alastair> Size = 0x12345678, State = COMMITED, Type = IMAGE) Alastair> you actually get told which image is responsible: Alastair> XEmacs cannot start because the memory region required Alastair> by the heap is not available Alastair> (BaseAddress = 0x12345678, Allocationbase = 0x12345678, Alastair> Size = 0x12345678, State = COMMITED, Type = IMAGE, Alastair> ModuleName = "AWKWARD.DLL") Alastair> Could someone with a test setup that does break in this Alastair> fashion please verify that this works correctly *before* Alastair> anyone applies it? I don't have any easy way of breaking Alastair> it like this. Alastair> Kind regards, Alastair> Alastair. Alastair> --- ntheap.c Tue May 9 10:18:48 2000 Alastair> +++ xemacs-21.2/src/ntheap.c Thu Jul 27 10:34:09 2000 Alastair> ＠＠ -228,8 +228,8 ＠＠ Alastair> recreate_heap (char *executable_path) Alastair> { Alastair> /* First reserve the upper part of our heap. (We reserve first Alastair> - because there have been problems in the past where doing the Alastair> - mapping first has loaded DLLs into the VA space of our heap.) */ Alastair> + because there have been problems in the past where doing the Alastair> + mapping first has loaded DLLs into the VA space of our heap.) */ Alastair> /* Query the region at the end of the committed heap */ Alastair> void *tmp; Alastair> ＠＠ -239,32 +239,48 ＠＠ Alastair> unsigned char* end = base + get_reserved_heap_size () - Alastair> get_committed_heap_size (); Alastair> VirtualQuery (base, &info, sizeof info); Alastair> if (info.State != MEM_FREE) Alastair> - { Alastair> - /* Oops, something has already reserved or commited it, nothing we can Alastair> do but exit */ Alastair> - char buf[256]; Alastair> - wsprintf(buf, Alastair> - "XEmacs cannot start because the memory region required by the heap Alastair> is not available.\n" Alastair> - "(BaseAddress = 0x%lx, AllocationBase = 0x%lx, Size = 0x%lx, State = Alastair> %s, Type = %s)", Alastair> - info.BaseAddress, info.AllocationBase, info.RegionSize, Alastair> - info.State == MEM_COMMIT ? "COMMITED" : "RESERVED", Alastair> - info.Type == MEM_IMAGE ? "IMAGE" : info.Type == MEM_MAPPED ? "MAPPED" Alastair> : "PRIVATE"); Alastair> - MessageBox(NULL, buf, "XEmacs", MB_OK | MB_ICONSTOP); Alastair> - exit(1); Alastair> - } Alastair> + { Alastair> + /* Oops, something has already reserved or commited it, nothing we Alastair> can do but exit */ Alastair> + char buf[256]; Alastair> + char modnambuf[80]; Alastair> + Alastair> + /* Find the filename of any DLL mapped at that address. This is a bit Alastair> + of a hack in that it relies on HMODULEs being pointers to the image Alastair> + base. However, this will almost certainly be the case for the Alastair> + forseeable future in MS operating systems. Alastair> + Alastair> + Note that we don't check for MEM_IMAGE first because it doesn't Alastair> + exist on Win95 AFAIK - ajh */ Alastair> + if (!GetModuleFileName ((HMODULE) info.AllocationBase, Alastair> + modnambuf, Alastair> + sizeof (modnambuf))) Alastair> + strcpy (modnambuf, "<unknown>"); Alastair> + Alastair> + wsprintf(buf, Alastair> + "XEmacs cannot start because the memory region required by the heap Alastair> is not available.\n" Alastair> + "(BaseAddress = 0x%lx, AllocationBase = 0x%lx, Size = 0x%lx, State Alastair> = %s, Type = %s, ModuleName = \"%s\")", Alastair> + info.BaseAddress, info.AllocationBase, info.RegionSize, Alastair> + info.State == MEM_COMMIT ? "COMMITED" : "RESERVED", Alastair> + info.Type == MEM_IMAGE ? "IMAGE" : info.Type == MEM_MAPPED ? Alastair> "MAPPED" : "PRIVATE", Alastair> + modnambuf); Alastair> + Alastair> + MessageBox(NULL, buf, "XEmacs", MB_OK | MB_ICONSTOP); Alastair> + exit(1); Alastair> + } Alastair> /* Now try and reserve as much as possible */ Alastair> size = min (info.RegionSize, end - base); Alastair> tmp = VirtualAlloc (base, size, MEM_RESERVE, PAGE_NOACCESS); Alastair> if (!tmp) Alastair> - { Alastair> - /* Can't reserve it, nothing we can do but exit */ Alastair> - char buf[256]; Alastair> - wsprintf(buf, Alastair> - "XEmacs cannot start because it couldn't reserve space required for Alastair> the heap.\n" Alastair> - "(VirtualAlloc at 0x%lx of 0x%lx failed (%d))", base, size, Alastair> GetLastError()); Alastair> - MessageBox(NULL, buf, "XEmacs", MB_OK | MB_ICONSTOP); Alastair> - exit (1); Alastair> - } Alastair> + { Alastair> + /* Can't reserve it, nothing we can do but exit */ Alastair> + char buf[256]; Alastair> + wsprintf(buf, Alastair> + "XEmacs cannot start because it couldn't reserve space required for Alastair> the heap.\n" Alastair> + "(VirtualAlloc at 0x%lx of 0x%lx failed (%d))", base, size, Alastair> GetLastError()); Alastair> + MessageBox(NULL, buf, "XEmacs", MB_OK | MB_ICONSTOP); Alastair> + exit (1); Alastair> + } Alastair> /* We read in the data for the .bss section from the executable Alastair> first and map in the heap from the executable second to prevent Alastair> -- Alastair> ____________________________________________________________ Alastair> Alastair Houghton ajhoughton(a)lineone.net