From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: g77 compiling problem
Date: 1 Jun 1997 06:46:09 GMT
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Xyloplax (johnp3 AT chelsea DOT ios DOT com) writes:
> I am trying to compile a large compilation of molecuar modelling
> routines written in fortran. I use the dos port of g77 from the djgpp
> project. All 400 other input files produced .o files except 5 and the
> message always resembled (with somwhat different numbers, though the
> magnitude was very similar) the following real example.
> 
> 
> gcc/bin/as.exe: Can not allocate 36680000 bytes after allocating
> 7548928 bytes

My God! What are you compiling that needs 36 *megabytes*? Anyways, that's
after a 7 meg allocation, for 45 megs total...more than your 40. Be sure
to run g77 from pure DOS, not Windows at all, so CWSDPMI runs and provides
disk swap. Have at least 10 megs of free disk space.

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