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From: mrs@netcom.COM (Morgan Schweers)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Using GPP flat-memory compiler w/MSDOS. Guru's & others, please help.
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Date: 16 May 91 10:42:34 GMT
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Greetings,
    I've got a copy of the Gnu G++ compiler for MS/DOS.  For those not
familiar with it's tricks, it swaps the machine into flat memory mode
during the time the GNU-compiled program is in control.  (Yes, folks,
even us sad '386 users can now do a malloc(50*1024*1024)!)
 
    The question before me is...  What sort of other problems may crop
up in the compilation of GNU Emacs?  I'm looking at a solid 6Megs
(compressed, I believe) of source code to download to do this, so I'd
like to know if it's ever going to be even POSSIBLE, or if I should
wait until my company goes to Unix.  (Probably never.)
 
    In all reality, if Gnu EMACS is 100% impossible to compile under
MS/DOS (even w/ a nice and powerful compiler), then I'll probably
just rewrite Freemacs in a flat memory C compiler.  *grin*  (Since
Gnu G++ for the PC allows virtual memory, I could edit 130 Meg files
on my 3Meg system!  That'd show those bastard Epsilon and uEmacs users!
*grin*)

                                                     --  Morgan Schweers