Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/06/02/03:23:58
On Thu, 30 May 1996, Trash wrote:
> > I had used v1 w/DOS, and a week ago, I upgraded to Win95. My program
> > compiled fine using v1 gcc. However, gdb no longer worked - it complained
> > about dpmi, and all the various incarnations I tried all failed in one way
> > or another.
In v1.x, you should use gdb-dpm under Windows.
> > So, I would like to make the following suggestion: for the readme.1st file
> > in the v2 directory, I think that mak373b.zip should also be a mandatory
> > file to download, if you've recently upgraded to Win95.
Was the previous Make the one from v1.x distribution? If so, your
problems are due to a well-documented limitation: v1.x programs cannot
spawn v2 programs. The `readme.1st' file clearly tells you to remove the
old v1.x installation before installing v2.
> I wouldn't even try to run djgpp in a dos box.
Why not? It runs just fine for me in that configuration.
> Also djgpp runs fastest on my system with a large read
> write cached smartdrive. Windows 95 rems out your smartdrive when it
> loads windows.
Windows 95 rems out SmartDrv because it has its own protected-mode disk
cache that is about twice as fast as SmartDrv.
> With a large smartdrv I've found the ramdrive useless.
Do you have benchmarks to support this? My testing shows that even with
a large SmartDrv, a RAM disk makes GCC faster.
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