From: Ville Laitinen <ville AT lark DOT sms DOT fi>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Virtual Memory Exhausted
Date: 16 Sep 1997 07:45:40 GMT
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Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net> wrote:
: At 10:59  9/15/1997 GMT, Matthew Winter wrote:
: >I continually get the "Virtual Memory Exhausted" error message running
: >the DJGPP compiler within Windows 95 DOS Box.

: - Windows 95 is configured to use a small amount of virtual memory. You can
: change this somehow, I think, but I don't use Windows 95 so I don't know
: specifically.
: - Your disk drive is nearly full. Thus there will be little space to swap into.

Or perhaps CC1.EXE simply runs out of stack-space and doesn't realize it.
Same actually applies to make with large makefiles.

Other symptoms would be random lock-ups when compiling large files with many
macros using heavy optimization.

You might try to increase the available stack with stubedit.

cheers,

-Ville

(Please do flame me if this was in the FAQ;-)