Mail Archives: djgpp/1993/06/17/19:09:36
> Go32 does not *heave* the <4Mb of memory. That's where your *stack*
> goes. Granted, most programs won't use all <4M of space (for cc1plus,
> it's really only about 2.5M of space, since there's 1.5M of code), but
> it's really a Bad Thing when you *do* use all <4M of stack, and you
> can't dynamically resize it.
Although the DPMI stack isn't dynamically resizeable, I thought
that you could control (shrink) the static stack size via _stklen, with
a minimum of 256KB. If this is true, then you could use less than 4MB
by shrinking the stack.
> Wouldn't it be better for people to spend their energy working to make
> go32 better for all than to spend it trying to replace it with
> something else?
I agree.
-- Darryl Okahata
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