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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 1996 19:21:02 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Alexander Lehmann <lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: memory exhausted?!?!
In-Reply-To: <4rtimr$13n1@rs18.hrz.th-darmstadt.de>
Message-Id: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960709191959.1993G-100000@is>
Mime-Version: 1.0

On 9 Jul 1996, Alexander Lehmann wrote:

> Ridge (ridge AT owb DOT mindspring DOT com) wrote:
> : I'm beta testing a graphics library and I have run across a linker
> : problem, so I figured I'd post it here if it happens to be a djgpp
> : thing.  When I attempt to link my object file and the library which is
> : about 420k, I get "could not read symbols: memory exhausted."  Any fix I
> : could apply or am I doing something hideously wrong?
> 
> It seems like the linker needs much more memory than the size of the
> libraries and object files it processes. First of all, you should
> check how much virtual memory you have available (go32-v2), if you are

No, this is just a plain bug in ld, it has nothing to do with the actual 
DPMI memory available at link time.

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