Diff crash when comparing 2 big files with error message "diff.exe: memory exhausted"

[Kissinger Chen]

HI, Lady/Gentleman:
 
This is Kissinger, a Gnuwin32 user. Today I use diff to compare some big
files and try to retrieve the differences between files. 
 
For some big files, the diff work well and I can get the differences.
But for some other big files, the diff will crash with 
such error message:"diff.exe: memory exhausted". These files are more
then 500 MB, pure text files. 
And I use the diff of 2.8.7, my OS is windows XP.
 
It seems there is an issue in the Gnuwin32 diff tool. Has this issue
been reported? I can not search this issue from help.
 
If convenient, can you tell me how to resolve this issue? Is there any
another diff-like tool? Thanks.
 
 
Kissinger
 
 


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