Date: Mon, 16 Aug 93 14:59:57 +0200
From: Agati Paolo <agati AT uts340 DOT univ DOT trieste DOT it>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, kagru AT mat DOT torun DOT edu DOT pl
Subject: Re:  virtual memory

Trieste, August 16th 1993

It means that you can allocate memory that you don't have (well, you
must have sufficient free disk space): gcc lets you use transparently
disk space as it was memory (I mean RAM). You can allocate up to 128
MB of disk space: try alloc(4000000) or compile the program pagetest.c
which comes in /gcc/samples/pagetest directory and run it increasing
each time the command line parameter. For a more technical discussion
you should ask DJ: he could give you more interesting informations, such
as the allocation strategy used by the dos extender (LRU for example).

Paolo Agati

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