mrs@netcom.COM (Morgan Schweers) (05/16/91)
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