Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 12:42:13 EDT
From: blumer AT ptltd DOT com (Tom Blumer)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: djgpp and 386max

I just downloaded djgpp and tried it for the first time.
It seems to work fine, and it definitely is giving me more
malloc memory than I had before, but I can still only malloc
about 1000 chunks of 1024K (1 MB) on my 8 MB PC.

I am running 386max - is that a problem?  I tried setting
the 386max switches EXT= or EMS= to configure the amount
of extended or EMS memory but that did not change the behavior.

My simple test program (malloc 2000 chunks of 1024 bytes) gives the
message:
DPMI: not enough memory (0x00620000 bytes)
This number makes sense - its about 6MB.  But why can I only malloc
1 MB.

I did notice that when I reduce my RAM disk (386disk) from 1MB to 512K
it gave me more memory.

Has anyone used djgpp with 386max?  Can someone give me a pointer about
what I'm doing wrong?  I'd really like to be able to use djgpp - it looks
like exactly what I need.
Thanks a lot
Tom
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