From:	rs AT redplanet DOT mars DOT org DOT cy (Rotes Sapiens)
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Subject:	Re: gcc not releasing memory
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On Tue, 8 Apr 2003 12:56:03 +0200, Danie Malan <dgm AT sun DOT ac DOT za> wrote:

Is the memory regained if you close the dosemu seeesion or log out of
that console?

>I encounter a problem that gcc seems to be not releasing the DPMI memory it 
>allocated during a compilation.  go32-v2 reports about 4 Megs less after each 
>compilation.  At the end gcc itself starts complaining that it can't allocate 
>memory.  Any ideas what's causing this?

>I'm running RedHat 7.3 with dosemu 1.0.1-10 and MSDOS 6.22.

>I've installed the following:

>bnu312b.zip
>djdev203.zip
>gcc322b.zip


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