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Subject: Re: ANN: Seed7 Release 2011-11-11
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On Nov 18, 7:10 am, Rugxulo <rugx DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Nov 17, 4:44 pm, "Charles Sandmann" <cwsd DOT  DOT  DOT  AT earthlink DOT net> wrote:
>
> > >"Rugxulo" <rugx DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmail DOT com> wrote in message
> > >news:a9b37d4c-a83d-4d88-be23-174d4fe9072a AT k10g2000yqn DOT googlegroups DOT com...
> > > It mostly (but not fully) seems to work. I can't remember why DJGPP
> > > will sometimes say "No swap space!"
>
> > That message is from CWSDPMI.  It shouldn't appear, but adding
> > more memory or disk space should make it go away.
>
> I don't know what Seed7 was trying to do exactly, but I'm 99% sure it
> wasn't lack of RAM (as I had oodles). Now, disk space, maybe, because
> I was (at the time) running all atop a 100 MB RAM disk, including the
> (temporary) DJGPP install. But who knows, maybe he was intentionally
> trying to malloc a lot of space.

A test which intentionally used malloc, to get huge
amounts of memory (to provoke a MEMORY_ERROR exception),
was removed from chkexc.sd7 in version 2011-10-03. It
caused swapping and other problems with 64-bit MacOS.


Greetings Thomas Mertes

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Seed7 Homepage:  http://seed7.sourceforge.net
Seed7 - The extensible programming language: User defined statements
and operators, abstract data types, templates without special
syntax, OO with interfaces and multiple dispatch, statically typed,
interpreted or compiled, portable, runs under linux/unix/windows.