From: "Anthony.Appleyard" <MCLSSAA2 AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Organization: Materials Science Centre
To: DJGPP AT DELORIE DOT COM
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 11:41:49 GMT-1
Subject: Re: djgpp DLL's?; The generation gap
Reply-to: Anthony DOT Appleyard AT umist DOT ac DOT uk
Message-ID: <F385831313@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>

  Anthony DOT Appleyard AT umist DOT ac DOT uk wrote:-
> When will djgpp C+ and also C++ have some sort of overlay program system!?,
> so that (code which not obeyed much) needn't stay in RAM all the time.

  jrubin AT BIX DOT com replied:-
> So long as you use djgpp with the supplied DPMI server (CWSDPMI) you have
> paging. When the program tries to allocate more memory than is physically
> present, stuff that has not been referenced for a long time is written to
> the swap file.

  DPMI swops <heap data> in and out. I was talking about swopping in and out
<program code> which is not used much.