Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 13:15:38 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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        "A.C.J. van Amersfoort" <arnova AT rulhm1 DOT leidenuniv DOT nl>
Subject: Re: QEMM problem !
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On Mon, 22 May 2000, Pierre Muller wrote:

>   CWSDPMI seems to not work correctly with QEMM.SYS,
> this is not Free Pascal specific, as my reporter also 
> also DJGPP programs like GNU as or ld  crash at startup !

I'm using QEMM with CWSDPMI from day one, and I never, ever had any 
problems with that combination.  And I mean _never_.  Not once.

Now, I don't know what is QEMM 9, my version is 8.03 and I stopped 
updating it after that.  Perhaps QEMM 9, if such a beast indeed exists, 
introduced some incompatibility, in which case it's something to look 
into.  I used all versions of QEMM from 6.x without any significant 
problems.

>   I did not find any reference about such a problem in the FAQ,

That's because nobody reported them until now.

Note that using QDPMI, at least with versions of QEMM up to 8.x, is not a 
good idea: it uses about 100KB of conventional memory for each DPMI 
client, even if it is nested, so you run out of DOS memory in recursive
Make's.  That is why I only use QDPMI for testing (it is loaded at boot 
time, but disabled, and I enable it with a command-line utility).