Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 13:26:05 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: John Machin cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: malloc() In-Reply-To: <199711072108.IAA01257@mona.lexicon.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Sat, 8 Nov 1997, John Machin wrote: > (a) real programs linked with different allocators, but: > (1) how to check when it runs out of real memory & starts swapping? Method (a): watch when the disk LED begins to flicker when no disk-related functions should be invoked. Method (b): set CWSDPMI's swap file to a non-existent drive and see when the program aborts saying "Out of virtual memory". > (2) I'm not wildly excited about the idea of FTPing emacs source, > compiling it etc, finding out how to make it actually do something, > ... [I have a 66MHz 486 with 8Mb memory, 420Mb HD, an Iomega ZIP > drive, and a 28.8Kbps dial-up modem] Tough. I don't see how could you test this with any real-world program without downloading some sources. For Emacs, you will need to download em2934b.zip, em1934r[1-3].zip and em1934s1.zip. These are 6 files, each one of them less than 1.4MB. If it fails to build, you will have to get em1934l[1-3].zip, which are another 4MB (I never tried without em1934l[1-3].zip, so I won't know if it will work). > > Again, I think this thread should move to djgpp-workers list. > > OK, but do I subscribe or is it "invitation only" :-) ... I'll try > subscribing & see what happens. It's up to you. You can subscribe, or you can just send messages there (and they will be reflected to those who subscribe). The replies will always get to you either way, since the default in most mailers is to reply to the addresses in both From: and cc: headers.