From: Charles Sandmann Subject: Re: Disabling use of disk as free store. To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii) Date: Sun, 4 Dec 1994 10:59:16 -0600 (CST) Cc: mrb AT robots DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk, sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu > > Is there a way of telling djgpp/gcc/go32 NOT to use the disk > > as free store when it runs out of memory (I mean when the compiled > > program is running and you ask for too much memory with a "new")? > > Frankly I would rather my program exited immediately when it ran out > > of memory rather than continue at snails pace using the disk (although Try: SET GO32TMP=Z:\ (or some other drive you don't have). This works fine. > Charles, how about the possibility of adding an option to CWSDPMI > that will enable switching virtual memory OFF in v2.0? The same feature above works with CWSDPMI, since it has GO32 as a close relative :-)