Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1997/11/09/06:30:39
On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, John Machin wrote:
> (a) real programs linked with different allocators, but:
> (1) how to check when it runs out of real memory & starts swapping?
Method (a): watch when the disk LED begins to flicker when no
disk-related functions should be invoked.
Method (b): set CWSDPMI's swap file to a non-existent drive and see
when the program aborts saying "Out of virtual memory".
> (2) I'm not wildly excited about the idea of FTPing emacs source,
> compiling it etc, finding out how to make it actually do something,
> ... [I have a 66MHz 486 with 8Mb memory, 420Mb HD, an Iomega ZIP
> drive, and a 28.8Kbps dial-up modem]
Tough. I don't see how could you test this with any real-world
program without downloading some sources.
For Emacs, you will need to download em2934b.zip, em1934r[1-3].zip and
em1934s1.zip. These are 6 files, each one of them less than 1.4MB.
If it fails to build, you will have to get em1934l[1-3].zip, which are
another 4MB (I never tried without em1934l[1-3].zip, so I won't know
if it will work).
> > Again, I think this thread should move to djgpp-workers list.
>
> OK, but do I subscribe or is it "invitation only" :-) ... I'll try
> subscribing & see what happens.
It's up to you. You can subscribe, or you can just send messages
there (and they will be reflected to those who subscribe). The
replies will always get to you either way, since the default in most
mailers is to reply to the addresses in both From: and cc: headers.
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