From: Tom Burgess <Tom_Burgess AT bc DOT sympatico DOT ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: RHIDE + nasm - problem identified
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 00:59:59 -0700
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This was going to be a plea for help, but I see what the problem is now.
Running nasm under RHIDE I kept getting out-of-memory errors. Updating
to the latest versions didn't help. (thanks, RH, for built-in nasm 
support in 1.2ab). Shelling out of RHIDE, mem showed only 388K low-RAM 
free, reduced from my pathetic 500K after loading drivers, etc. Anyway,
nasm failed from the RHIDE dos shell, too. I guess the binary nasm 
distribution needs at least 448K low RAM, since everything worked when
I commented out my CD-rom driver from config.sys. The binary nasm
probably assumes that no DPMI is available and needs low RAM.

Has anyone had any success with recompiling nasm with DJGPP?
Maybe the problem will go away if it becomes an ordinary 32 bit program.

By the way, nasm 0.94 looks pretty good - multiline macros, conditionals,
MMX & PPRO instructions.

	regards, tom