Subject:	Re: `Not enough memory to run GO32' ?
To:	A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs1 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk (ANTHONY APPLEYARD)
Date:	Fri, 11 Nov 1994 10:33:09 -0600 (CST)
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From:	mcastle AT umr DOT edu (Mike Castle)

Amazingly enough ANTHONY APPLEYARD said:
> 
>   >> However, if I do `make install', gcc is started and quits soon with the
> message: `Not enough memory to run GO32!'. I've got 8 MB on my machine, so I
> must be doing something wrong. ...
> 
>   Aaron Ucko replied:-
>   > GO32 needs to load itself into conventional memory; if you don't have
> enough free to load three GO32s (make + gcc + cpp / cc1(plus) / as / ld), you
> need either to free some up or to use gcc-rm and/or non-GO32 make.
> 
>   Could GO32 be revised so it could run more than one Gnu C program at once?
> I.e. if Gnu C program X calls Gnu C program Y, the (copy of GO32 that called
> X) would also call Y. If Y is on an .EXE file that on examination proves to
> start with its own copy of GO32.EXE, then X's copy of GO32 would ignore the
> GO32.EXE part of Y.EXE and load the rest of it and run it.
>   There would also seem to be a case for thoroughly searching and going over
> GO32 to reduce its bulk as far as possible. 78810 bytes seems rather a lot.


When 2.0 comes out, this will be a non problem (there is only
about 5k per process overhead, though that will vary with your
particular DPMI server).

1.x *could* be fixed, but the effort would be better spent
getting 2.0 up and running.

mrc
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