Date:	Fri, 12 Mar 93 09:20:58 EST
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT ctron DOT com>
To:	boutell AT isis DOT cshl DOT org
Cc:	jshumate AT wrdis01 DOT robins DOT af DOT mil, rcharif AT math DOT utexas DOT edu,
	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: thanks and GNUish advocacy

>I think I'm missing something here. Why does debug32 need to be compiled
>with the small memory model under TC? Is the rest of the lower 640k
>needed for urgent DJGPP bookkeeping chores?

The original architecture of go32.exe was small model to keep
Turbo-C's runtime from screwing with the rest of 640K memory, which
go32 was using to hold paging tables.  Had it been large model, I
would have had a harder time managing the 640K memory.

Note: A recent change (1.08 or 1.09) freed up about 4K of code space,
so some old fixes may now fit in debug32.  If I ever get around to
supporting gdb, this point will be moot.

DJ

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