Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/21/01:52:26
On Wed, 20 Nov 1996 timolmst AT cyberramp DOT net wrote:
> supposed to be running. It would never be on the first file compiled,
> but about the third. I would see the command line message invoking the
> compiler, then the machine would just go dead. At the time, I only had
> 578K available in the lower 640K. I now have 639K available, and don;t
> see that problem anymore.
>
> My question is this. Is there a certain monimum of memory that gcc, or
> ld for that matter, need in the lower 640k?
That depends on the DPMI server that you use. Is it CWSDPMI? If so, you
shouldn't have such problems, so I suspect it is some other DPMI server.
> If so, it would be nice if
> it would give an error message, and abort, rather than crashing the
> computer.
That is a rather hard thing to require from all the commercial DPMI
servers out there.
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