Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:44:54 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: timolmst AT cyberramp DOT net
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: RHIDE Beta 6 : My mouse don't work right.
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On Wed, 20 Nov 1996 timolmst AT cyberramp DOT net wrote:

> supposed to be running. It would never be on the first file compiled,
> but about the third. I would see the command line message invoking the
> compiler, then the machine would just go dead. At the time, I only had
> 578K available in the lower 640K. I now have 639K available, and don;t
> see that problem anymore.
> 
> My question is this. Is there a certain monimum of memory that gcc, or
> ld for that matter, need in the lower 640k?

That depends on the DPMI server that you use.  Is it CWSDPMI?  If so, you 
shouldn't have such problems, so I suspect it is some other DPMI server.

> If so, it would be nice if
> it would give an error message, and abort, rather than crashing the
> computer.

That is a rather hard thing to require from all the commercial DPMI 
servers out there.