Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/04/07/01:14:01
On 6 Apr 1996, GEORGE GAGHON wrote:
> I have a setup with HIMEM in the config.sys.
>
> When I run go32-v2, if have 636Kbytes of DPMI memory. And stuff compiles
> sloooowwwllyyy :)
>
> Then I remove HIMEM from the config.sys
>
> I get 7096Kbytes of DPMI memory.
Morale: do not install HIMEM unless you need to (and you generally don't).
> When I write a program with DJGPP, how does it access memory with Malloc
> from the DPMI memory, or from XMS and DPMI?
CWSDPMI converts any memory it finds into DPMI memory, which DJGPP then
uses as such.
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