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From: broeker AT I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN (Hans-Bernhard Broeker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GO32, and GCC questions
Date: 1 Aug 1996 11:14:17 GMT
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Tim Olmstead (timolmst AT cyberramp DOT net) wrote:
> Hi!

> 1. Can GO32 load a program (compiled with GCC) that is larger than
> 640k? If GO32 switches into protected mode before it loads the
> program, I can see this working.

Of course it can. That's among the most important reasons why DJGPP was
made in the first place: no more silly 64K and 640K barriers on a machine
that can easily handle a dozen megabytes. Have a look at cc1.exe, the
'real' c compiling sub-program of DJGPP: it's about one megabyte, and
it works like a breeze.

> 2. How can I get GCC to link a VERRY large program when the DOS
> command line won't hold all the library names? Can it read a list of
> names from a file? Sjould I rebuild the various libraries into just
> one library so I have room on the command line for its' name?

Well, that would not be the silliest option (libraries are designed to
reduce the number of necessary command line arguments, in a way: just
-lgrx instead of some 200 *.o files to be given), but it's probably 
easier to

{
	0.1) dump the go32.exe and all the rest of DJGPP V1.*
	0.12) get DJGPP V2
}
	1) use Make (it can pass arbitrarily long command lines to gcc)

Hans-Bernhard Broeker (Aachen, Germany)