I have tried to assemble Fasm 1.55 using the Linux version of Fasm, but it fails with an out of memory error. I can use WINE to run the Win32 console version to assemble Linux and other versions of Fasm. I'm assuming it's running out of memory trying to assemble x86.inc - I tried giving it more with the -m argument but that didn't work. I'm using version 2.6.8.1 of the Linux kernel.

I've traced the jump to out_of_memory to line 91 in preproce.inc

Here's the variant of fasm for Linux that will display how much of memory was it able to allocate. Please try it, also with different "-m" parameter settings, and tell what values it displayed.

./fasm fasm.asm f
flat assembler version 1.55
allocated 666933 bytes for main memory block.
error: out of memory.


It seems to give different values for amount allocated every time I run it. larger -m values will give random results, but it doesn't seem to want to allocate more than ~ 666KB.

Interesting, I've assembled it fine on another machine with the same exact kernel/linux distribution. The only difference being hardware. I've got an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ w/1gb ram and the other machine is a 2ghz Celeron w/256mb ram. I don't have any other problems running software.. and I put this machine through some heavy usage. I'll test it under vmware. Got to love x86 hardware

I just finished assembling too. Works fine. 2ghz Celeron with 512 ram. Using 2.6.6-1 kernel though.