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Date: Fri, 26 May 1995 15:12:27 +0800 (WST)
From: Shri Rai <smr AT cs DOT murdoch DOT edu DOT au>
Subject: Re: DJGPP crashes
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu


On Thu, 25 May 1995, Stephen Turnbull wrote:

> How about the memory numbers from topline?  I don't see any reason for
> them to change, so it would be curious if they did.  However, it
> sounds to me like there is an incompatibility with the way memory is
> installed on your machine.  The fact that playing with those BIOS
> options changes GO32's reports suggests that to me, anyway.


With memory relocation enabled, topline shows 124K and 1712K at crash 
time for gcc. Go32 reports 1404K

Norton Utilities si's output is attached.

Thank you for the information on memory relocation.

Shri



         Computer Name: IBM AT
      Operating System: DOS 5.00
   Built-in BIOS dated: Thursday, April 19, 1990
        Main Processor: Intel 80386              Serial Ports: 1
          Co-Processor: None                   Parallel Ports: 1
 Video Display Adapter: Enhanced Graphics (EGA), 256 K-bytes
    Current Video Mode: Text, 80 x 25 Monochrome
 Available Disk Drives: 3, A: - C:

DOS reports 640 K-bytes of memory:
    61 K-bytes used by DOS and resident programs
   579 K-bytes available for application programs
A search for active memory finds:
   640 K-bytes main memory     (at hex 00000-0A000)
    32 K-bytes display memory  (at hex 0B000-0B800)
 1,408 K-bytes extended memory (at hex 10000-26000)
ROM-BIOS Extensions are found at hex paragraphs: C000


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