Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 17:02:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
Sender: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: g77 and opendos
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One of the things I tried was a compile just after power up and I still
got the dpmi memory exhausted error.
I'll try without emm386.exe and get back with the results.

> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 18:13:27 +0300 (IDT)
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
> To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
> Cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: Re: g77 and opendos
> 
> 
> On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> 
> > Evidently the two are incompatible.
> > My machine has 8 megs of ram and
> > while using opendos 7.01 and g77 current version for dos
> > with or without dpms.exe and with or without cwsdpmi.exe
> > I get:
> > f771.exe virtual memory exhausted.
> 
> I have seen a few user reports which seem to indicate that OpenDOS has
> severe bug in its EMM386 memory manager.  This bug causes memory
> leaks, so that with each new DJGPP program invocation, you have less
> and less available DPMI memory.  Eventually your DJGPP programs have
> no DPMI memory to run, and you have to reboot.  This happens even if
> you turn OFF the DPMI services built into OpenDOS, and use CWSDPMI.
> 
> Try to not load EMM386.  If that doesn't help, the only other solution
> is to boot into MS-DOS.
> 

//eoj

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