Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 20:16:51 +0300
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> From: clc5q AT cobra DOT cs DOT Virginia DOT EDU
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> Date: 22 Jun 2002 15:53:21 GMT
> 
> When I run go32-v2, it tells me I have 136MB of DPMI memory available,
> but 0KB of swap space. (The laptop has 256 MB of DRAM).

This is normal on all versions of Windows that are descendants of NT.
Don't worry about that, you do have access to all the memory installed
on your machine, it's just that the DPMI host lies about how much is
there.

> gcc 2.95.3 is
> failing to compile a very large function in one of my C source files
> (it will produce a few hundred KB of object code in a single
> function.) The failure is silent; make shows that the compilation is
> occurring, then it simply stops and does not continue any further in
> the makefile, with no messages.

I think that's because you have an old binary of GCC.  Be sure to get
the latest one, there are numerous fixes for XP-specific problems.