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From: 7103_2622@uwovax.uwo.ca (Eric Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: GCC: Virtual memory exhausted error?
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.185002.8821@uwovax.uwo.ca>
Date: 17 Mar 91 23:50:02 GMT
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In article <0bsiSby00VADAIpl4O@andrew.cmu.edu>, es2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Stuyvesant) writes:
> I'm running gcc from RAMdisk on my 4 Mb system, and am playing a
> balancing game between disk space and memory.  I have been getting an
> error from GCC, namely "Virtual memory exhausted."  Does this really
> mean "disk space exhausted," as it seems to imply, or does it mean "not
> enough memory?"  It doesn't seem to matter which version of gcc I use,
> be it 1.37 or 1.39.
> 
It means "Real memory exhausted" on the ST, since we don't have any
virtual memory. (Although if you have a TT, and write the necessary
software, this could change...)

I find gcc usually wants 2 megabytes; if your functions tend to be large
and complicated, 2.5 megabytes may be necessary.
-- 
Eric R. Smith                     email:
Dept. of Mathematics            eric.smith@uwo.ca
University of Western Ontario   7103_2622@uwovax.bitnet