To:	DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
Cc:	grw AT tamu DOT edu, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: gccdpmi1.zip on omnigate
Date:	Thu, 17 Jun 1993 15:21:01 -0700
From:	Darryl Okahata <darrylo AT hpnmxx DOT sr DOT hp DOT com>

> Go32 does not *heave* the <4Mb of memory.  That's where your *stack*
> goes.  Granted, most programs won't use all <4M of space (for cc1plus,
> it's really only about 2.5M of space, since there's 1.5M of code), but
> it's really a Bad Thing when you *do* use all <4M of stack, and you
> can't dynamically resize it.

     Although the DPMI stack isn't dynamically resizeable, I thought
that you could control (shrink) the static stack size via _stklen, with
a minimum of 256KB.  If this is true, then you could use less than 4MB
by shrinking the stack.

> Wouldn't it be better for people to spend their energy working to make
> go32 better for all than to spend it trying to replace it with
> something else?

     I agree.

     -- Darryl Okahata
	Internet: darrylo AT sr DOT hp DOT com

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