From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 09:58:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Overlaying

  "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk> wrote:
> In my emacs that I am writing in Gnu C++, there is a fair length of program
> text which is obeyed once on starting and not again ... [I want to be able
> to call a subroutine and then release the store space that it ocupies.]

  max AT alcyone DOT darkside DOT com (Erik Max Francis) replied (Subject: Re:
Overlaying):-
> Is the portion of the initialization code _really_ large enough to warrant
> such measures? Are you sure you're stripping the COFF of symbols before
> converting it to an EXE? (link with -s or run coff2exe on the COFF)?

  Yes to both.