Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 09:52:08 +0200 (EET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT latnet DOT lv>
To: "C.Rothwell" <crothwell AT hotmail DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: help me!
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On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, C.Rothwell wrote:

> Hi, hope this isn't a always asked question but i'm in a rush and need
> help.
> 
> I'm compileing quite a large bit of code with -o2 and i keep running out
> of virtual memory.
> 
> I did what it says in the faq and i have incleased the space from 2 meg
> to 22 meg, but it still runs out of memory. And unless there is some
> kinf of command line stuff i don't know of i'm stuck.
> 
> Im running windows 95 on a Pentium 75 with 24 meg of ram and 10 gig of
> HD space.
> 
> Please help i can't live with these massive .exe's! :)
> 

Specify size of DPMI memory available for DOS session in which You are 
running gcc (or ld as I had problems with it with also 24Mb) to some
larger value. Looks that the default 'auto' does not allow more than
physical size of memory. Set it to 50Mb or something similar

Andris