Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:3023 From: Charles Sandmann Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: V2 = hmmm Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:22:47 CDT Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas Lines: 22 Message-ID: <317cd9a7.sandmann@clio.rice.edu> References: Reply-To: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu NNTP-Posting-Host: clio.rice.edu To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp > Its takes a LOT more memory (I could compile programs with > v1.12 with my 8M .. now I run out of Vmemory .. V2 takes no more physical memory than V1.x does, so this must be a configuration problem. GCC 2.7 may take more memory, but if thats the problem just use 2.6.3 instead (it's not a V1.x vs V2.x problem) > And is it really a good thing having to deal with a DPMI host all the time? It's a better thing than having to deal with GO32 all the time. If you already have DPMI (like Win/OS2/etc are REQUIRED to use) you save around 130K per program in low DOS memory with V2 vs V1. CWSDPMI is smaller than GO32, so even if a DPMI is not available you still use less memory. > (I'm running Win95 and linux, using DJGPP within w95 of course; Ah, the culprit. Win95. MS decided to limit the amount of DPMI memory for an application by default to some very small value. Change it to 65535 (hand type it in, it's too stupid to think anyone would want more than 16Mb of memory). Well, at this point I could flame you for blaming your problems on the free product when they are actually in the commercial product, but instead I'll trust you will call MS and complain, right? :-)