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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: Tom Burgess <Tom_Burgess AT bc DOT sympatico DOT ca>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 14:56:27 +0000
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Subject: Re: RHIDE + nasm - problem identified
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Tom Burgess <Tom_Burgess AT bc DOT sympatico DOT ca> wrote:
> 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.

NO, NASM is a real-mode program (at least 0.90) so no DPMI.

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

Yes this will kill your problems.
 
> By the way, nasm 0.94 looks pretty good - multiline macros, conditionals,
> MMX & PPRO instructions.

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