(Pardon me if this is a dumb newbie question.)

This week as my codebase become just slightly more complex I hit the message:
"Error: not enough memory to complete the assembly."

I used Windows Task Manager to check memory usage, and I see that fasmg spikes to over 4 GB of memory usage when it compiles last week's codebase (successfully). I take it that fasmg has a memory ceiling of 2^32 bytes? Is there any simple way to stop fasmg from needing so much memory in order to compile my program that has <60K of output?

I am currently using last week's version g.jje9 for Windows, on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine. Is there a 64-bit version of fasmg for Windows that would be able to compile my program? Is there a 64-bit version for a different OS that would be able to compile my program?

Linux.

Thanks!

All versions of fasm/fasmg are limited to 4G, as the assembler core uses 32-bit pointers in its data structures. The x64 variants are provided solely because of systems (like some Linux versions) that have no ability to run 32-bit executables.

However, it is very unusual for fasmg to actually need this much memory - even the assembly of HeavyThing, which is a substantial project, requires only about 40-50 MB of memory. If the memory usage goes into GB range for a more or less standard program, it is caused either by a bug in the assembler or by some runaway inefficiency in the macros used in the project. In either case this would need further investigation, as it is very unlikely that it truly needs to use that much memory (if it was usual for memory requirements to be that high, I would work on an actual 64-bit version of fasmg, but it's not).