Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:15:20 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <softbrek AT kaa DOT informatik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: 16 bit GCC/DJGPP?


On 16 Oct 1995, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> I think the program you are remembering is the so-called 'real-mode gcc'.
> That was just the driver program gcc.exe, compiled by turbo-c in 16 bits.
> The only reason this was ever useful was the 130 K footprint each 
> invocation of go32.exe cost you in the precious 640 K DOS memory. The
> real-mode gcc had a much smaller footprint, and therefore you sometimes

Just a small correction: unless real-mode gcc is linked with one of the 
libraries which swap most of the code out of memory when spawning child 
programs (stock real-mode gcc isn't linked that way), you don't gain as 
much as it might seem: the footprint of real-mode gcc is about 100K.