Date:	Thu, 1 Jul 93 17:35:06 -0400
From:	rth AT sparta DOT com (Robert T. Harris)
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Compile Speed Problem Continued...

Sorry about using the djgpp-announce mailing list for technical problems - I'll
stick to djgpp!  I tried the version 110 compiler on the machine at work and
got it to work - only after I quick fiddling with 386max and simply ran HIMEM.SYS.
Compiles were much more reasonable - seconds instead of minutes!  I did have a lot
of trouble with 386max version 6.02 though - it got half way into the compile and
ran out of virtual memory.  Smartdrv.sys was consuming about 2 Megs and my 8 Megs of
physical space was reduced to about 4 Megs - GCC seemed to need a little more.  I
got a general protection fault from go32 - something about address 4c:xxxx even after
dedicating 6 Megs to EMS... at which point I switched to HIMEM.SYS and things went
without a hitch!

Now some questions:  Are there incompatibilites with QEMM386.sys or 386max.sys?
Can you override the compiler to use certain type memory (EXT vs XMS vs EMS)?
Why is EMS memory used in a protected mode compiler (why not XMS)?

Thanks for the tips - I'll fiddle with the machine at home tonight.

					Bob Harris

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