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From: jim@tortuga.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Jim (James) Ruehlin)
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Subject: Re: Problem compiling Borland C++ Todolist example
Keywords: borland memory problem
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Date: 24 Apr 91 20:56:42 GMT
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In article <4964@melon5.UUCP> skrbec@motcid.UUCP (Brad Skrbec) writes:
>The PC I'm compiling on is an AT compatible with 640K memory,
>and 1 Meg of extended memory.  The hard disk has about 7 or 8 meg
>of space for swapping.
>
>When I "make" the project list, in BC, I get the message
>"Fatal Error: Out of memory" and the compiler craps out in the 
>tododlgs.h file while compiling todolist.cpp.
>
>I'm a new C++ user, so be gentle :-)


It sounds like you're using BC instead of BCX.  BCX is just like BC,
except that it's uses extended memory for compiling, not just caching.
I got the same message as you at first, before I realized that I
needed to use BCX on my 4MB machine.  I now allocate it a mere 600k
in my Windows PIF file, and I have hundreds of K left over as
each module compiles.

I too found almost nothing in the manuals that pointed this out.  There
was one reference to it, and I forgot what manual it was in.

Good luck!

- Jim Ruehlin