From:	"Tom Morton" <tmorton AT yikesstation DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Program too large?
Date:	Tue, 28 Sep 1999 00:03:34 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
news:Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 990927190441 DOT 10981D-100000 AT is...
>
> On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Tom Morton wrote:
>
> > I was happily writing my DJGPP/Allegro game, blissfully unaware
> > that it was approaching my computers maximum conventional memory.
> > The game's .exe file is now 560Kb and no longer runs, reporting:
> >
> > Program too big to fit in memory
>
> The size of the executable has nothing to do with how much conventional
> memory it uses up.  DJGPP programs usually need about 70KB of
> conventional memory, the rest goes into extended memory.  The error
> message you cite is printed by DOS, but DOS doesn't even know how much
> extended memory does a DJGPP program need, because DOS doesn't understand
> the format of the DJGPP executable, and doesn't read anything into memory
> except the short 2KB stub prepended to it.  The extended memory is set
> up, and the program is read into it by the stub loader, not by DOS.
>
> So your problem is NOT with the size of .exe, it is somewhere else.  Most
> probably, you made some mistake when compiling your program.  So
> describing how exactly did you compile and link the program, including
> the command line and any switches you used, would be a good beginning.

The last thing I did before it stopped working was add an extra function
to main.c. I tried re-compiling it but it still didn't work so I moved it
[the function] to another source file and everything worked again. <shrug>
Oh well, as long as it works...


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