From: David Jenkins <me AT jenkinsdavid DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: Allegro WIP (make.exe crash)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 01:08:47 +0100
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In article <606sfe$lu0$1 AT news1 DOT tor DOT acc DOT ca>, Andrew Ellem
<krand AT ican DOT net> writes
>On behalf of someone's advice I tried compiling the WIP in
>a non-win95 DOS prompt.  What happened was even weierder.
>Make crashed when compiling the file listed below, so I decided
>to redir the error to a text file (redir -eo error.txt make), 
>but it ended up rebooting my computer!
>
>Help!

That might have been me.

I just got PGCC and rebuilt Allegro WIP, this time to fix them I
followed somebody elses advice.
Start a Dos session in Win95,
Alt + TAB back to Win95 select the Dos boxes properties
Under the memory tab select DPMI and TYPE in 65535.
Make then ran without errors.

>--
>Andrew Ellem
>krand AT ican DOT net
>
>In article <606l0a$h72$1 AT news1 DOT tor DOT acc DOT ca>, krand AT ican DOT net wrote:
>>I've been having trouble compiling the latest Allegro WIP:
>>
>>Compiling the djgpp version of Allegro. Please wait...
>>gcc -I. -Isrc -Isrc/djgpp -Iobj/djgpp -Wall -W -Werror -m486 -O3 -ffast-math 
>>-fo
>>mit-frame-pointer -o obj/djgpp/colblend.o -c src/colblend.c
>>src/colblend.c: In function `blend16_73':
>>src/colblend.c:227: virtual memory exhausted
>>make.exe: *** [obj/djgpp/colblend.o] Error 1
>>
>>I've never had problems compiling Allegro before, but after 
>>taking a look at 'colblend.c', I'd guess the problem is the
>>fact that about 256 (or more) functions are defined.
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated. FYI I'm compiling under a Win95
>>Dos box.
>>
>>P.S. I've already looked at the DJGPP FAQ and couldn't find
>>any refrence to 'virtual memory exhausted'.

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