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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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