Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 09:17:58 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Cc: mist AT cyberus DOT ca, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Gnu C Preprocessor in MSDOS
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On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, John M. Aldrich wrote:

> BTW, I don't honestly think that the GNU tools can be ported to 16-bit,

I don't have the sources for GCC's cpp handy, but I suspect it reads
the entire file into memory (at least a version distributed with GNU 
Emacs does exactly that).  If that's the case, then with 16-bit version 
you won't be able to process files larger than, say, 600K, unless you 
either make significant changes in the original code or use some special 
library which allows transparent access to extended memory.