Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 21:00:01 +22305931 (WAUST)
From: Ron Grunwald <rgrunwal AT bluering DOT cowan DOT edu DOT au>
Subject: Re: QDPMI + GCC
To: Peter Breitling <breitlip AT informatik DOT tu-muenchen DOT de>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu



On 25 Jul 1995, Peter Breitling wrote:

> When i use QDPMI (QUEMM DPMI HOST) gcc always runs out of memory. Using QUEMM
> without QDPMI makes no problems!
> 
> I have 20Mb of mem and using QDPMI with a swapfile makes no difference!
> 
> Is this a bug of go32? Or has someone gcc running WITH installed QDPMI?
> 

I used to have QDPMI running with GCC, but mostly got the same type of
problems as you describe above. From memory I think the problem was along
the lines of QDPMI looking for the amount of physical ram specified by
GO32, and if it couldn't find that the classic

DPMI: Not enough memory (0x00...)

would be displayed. Virtual memory was never considered by QDPMI.

I recommend using Charles Sandmann's CWSDPMI as the dpmi interface. Ever
since I've switched to it there have been virtually no problems anymore.
CWSDPMI is available through FTP but unfortunately I've forgotten the site.


Regards, Ron.