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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DPMI in v2 vs. v1
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 21:04:03 CST
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> One of the source files in the library contains very large arrays which made
> gcc run out of memory in my environment (Win95 with 8MB), well Win95 has
> a crummy DPMI and odd memory managment anyway, I thought, 

Try changing the amount of DPMI memory available for the DOS session from
auto to the max allowed.  This should help.

> However, when comparing the memory values with go32-v2 with the ones reported
> with go32 from v1, it seems that the Win95 DPMI has more virtual memory
> available, but it is not available to djgppv2 programs.

This is a bug in the memory reported by GO32-V2 - it doesn't account for the
memory it is using itself.  Add around 300K.