From: clc5q AT cobra DOT cs DOT Virginia DOT EDU (Clark L. Coleman)
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Subject: Re: DOS Protected Mode Services under Windows XP
Date: 22 Jun 2002 21:53:43 GMT
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In article <1659-Sat22Jun2002201650+0300-eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
Eli Zaretskii <djgpp AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>> From: clc5q AT cobra DOT cs DOT Virginia DOT EDU
>> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
>> Date: 22 Jun 2002 15:53:21 GMT
>> 
>> When I run go32-v2, it tells me I have 136MB of DPMI memory available,
>> but 0KB of swap space. (The laptop has 256 MB of DRAM).
>
>This is normal on all versions of Windows that are descendants of NT.
>Don't worry about that, you do have access to all the memory installed
>on your machine, it's just that the DPMI host lies about how much is
>there.

Thanks.

>> gcc 2.95.3 is
>> failing to compile a very large function in one of my C source files
>> (it will produce a few hundred KB of object code in a single
>> function.) The failure is silent; make shows that the compilation is
>> occurring, then it simply stops and does not continue any further in
>> the makefile, with no messages.
>
>I think that's because you have an old binary of GCC.  Be sure to get
>the latest one, there are numerous fixes for XP-specific problems.

Actually, I have the 2.03 updates for XP. Before I got them, the
failure was a SIGSEGV or some such catastrophe. Once I got the updated
XP version of the same gcc version (2.95.3), along with all the other
XP updates, it became a silent error.

Clark Coleman