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Date: | Fri, 5 Apr 1996 20:45:10 -0500 |
From: | dj (DJ Delorie) |
Message-Id: | <199604060145.UAA24013@delorie.com> |
To: | Sengan DOT Short AT durham DOT ac DOT uk |
CC: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
In-reply-to: | <27151.9604051203@ws-rg.dur.ac.uk> (Sengan.Short@durham.ac.uk) |
Subject: | Re: Slow linking |
> I also have a question: CC is an executable of more that 1Mb, how is > it possible for DOS to load it given that DOS can only access 640Kb > of conventional memory. gcc isn't a 1Mb program. It's a 2K program with 1M of extra stuff pasted onto it. DOS only loads the 2K part; the 2K part loads the rest into DPMI memory.
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