Date:	Wed, 28 Jun 1995 08:54:01 +0300
From:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
To:	A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk
Subject:	Re: size of A.OUT files
Cc:	DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> a.out into an .exe file by prepending go32.exe . If compiled without -g, the
> resulting .exe file is 520953 bytes long, but when I call the DOS command `MEM
> /C' from inside the program it says that the program as loaded (presumably
> including go32.exe) occupies only 131584 bytes of conventional memory (and no

130KB is the usual go32 low-memory footprint (it indeed is larger than its image
on disk).  Everything else (EMS/XMS) is paged out by go32 when you spawn mem /c,
so you don't see it.  (If you really want to see that extended memory, you can
stubedit your program to not be paged out.)

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