count_binary example -- fatal error couldn't allocate heap?

Try the recommendation given at the following link:

http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html

In particular, try compiling and running the application given at the end of the recommendation. Here are the results that I see on my WinXP-64 machine with 8GB of RAM...compiled and ran from within a Nios II Command Shell.

$ cat ./max_mem.c
main()
{
  unsigned int bit=0x40000000, sum=0;
  char *x;
  while (bit > 4096)
  {
    x = malloc(bit);
    if (x)
    sum += bit;
    bit >>= 1;
  }
  printf("%08x bytes (%.1fMb)\n", sum, sum/1024.0/1024.0);
  return 0;
}
/cygdrive/c/Downloads
$ gcc max_mem.c -o max_mem.exe
/cygdrive/c/Downloads
$ ./max_mem.exe
5fffe000 bytes (1536.0Mb)

Also, if you have a Logitech Quickcam, disable the driver for it and see if that makes a difference. My impression is that this is a Cygwin/Logitech issue, not an Altera/IDE/EDS issue.

Cheers,

- slacker