From: softbrek AT POOL DOT Informatik DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE
Subject: Re: ld and GCC-RM
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)
Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 15:13:25 +0200 (MET DST)

> 
> > GCC-RM is just a real-mode version of GCC.  This is not likely to help
> > with memory problems, as GCC will take up ~130KB due to the GO32 stub,
> > but as far as I know GCC-RM does not swap itself out.  (At least the
> > difference was not enough to fix *my* make+GCC+compiler runs out of
> > memory woes.)
> 
> There's a program at SimTel which intercepts shell calls and pages almost
> everything out so that you have much more memory available to the shell.
> I've never tried it with a GO32 program, and since I don't use gnu make, I
> can't easily test it.  If it works, it might help the out-of-memory problems
> you get with recursive makes.
> 
> At oak.oakland.edu:
> Directory SimTel/msdos/sysutil/
>  Filename   Type Length   Date    Description
> ==============================================
> shrom24b.zip  B   18145  940111  ShellRoom v2.4b: Swap program from MEM to disk
> 
Well, I tried this (a while ago, so I think it was an older version) on
DJGPP-compiled programs, and I couldn't get it to work. Yes, I tried 
hard on it, but it seemed unable to recognize the loading-sequence of
DJGPP-programs (stub-loader in <file>.exe loads go32.exe from the path, which
then loads the 32-bit-executable from <file>.exe). But as a new version seems
to be out, I`ll have a look at that and report the results to this list
next time I'm on the line.

Hans-Bernhard