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Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 08:26:45 -0500
From: "A. Sinan Unur" <sinan DOT unur AT cornell DOT edu>
Organization: Cornell University (http://www.cornell.edu/)
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To: Bill Bouma <bouma AT geoplex DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: gcc running out of memory?
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Bill Bouma wrote:

> By including the -m option on the command line, it reports
> using 28MB memory.  My machine has 40MB.  Is it possible I
> do not have MSDOS shell with enough memory?  I am new to
> MSDOS, so I do not know what all of these memory options
> are: conventional, expanded (EMS), extended(XMS) (also, use
> HMA or not), and protected mode (DPMI)?  I have these all
> set to "auto".  If I set them to 16384, it says "unable to
> allocate memory at line 2712".  If I set them to 32768, the
> behavior is identical to "auto".

i would rcommend getting rid of the ems memory (set to none) leave xms
at auto, and type 65535 for dpmi. don't forget to use a large enough
value for the environment (at least 2K). also, set conventional memory
to 640k, and check the protected option below that (i am not exactly
sure what it does.) this setup has never caused a problem for me
(although i never compiled anything so huge.)

now, those were general recommendations. it sounds more like you are
running out of stack space. once you make sure enough memory is
available, you can use stubedit to increase the default stack size for
gcc (just go to the bin directory, type stubedit gcc.exe, and set it to
1Mb or more, and give it a shot.)

hth.

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