Date: Sun, 7 Apr 1996 09:02:58 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: GEORGE GAGHON <gaghon AT nevada DOT edu>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: go32-v2 and HIMEM...
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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.