cmf@cwruecmp.UUCP (Carl Fongheiser) (12/04/84)
I am attempting to get news 2.10.2 running under PRO/VENIX (V7 on a PRO/350). Programs larger than 64k are no problem due to a technique called code-mapping which allows programs as large as the system memory minus the kernel. However, this technique allows only a 40k data space, and inews seems to use that much up without even doing any malloc()'s. inews fails with "inews: malloc failed on cwru-microlab". Is there any easy way to reduce inews' data requirements? Thanks, Carl Fongheiser ...!decvax!cwruecmp!cmf cmf%case@csnet-relay.ARPA
randy@wlcrjs.UUCP (Randy Suess) (12/05/84)
In article <1226@cwruecmp.UUCP> cmf@cwruecmp.UUCP (Carl Fongheiser) writes: >I am attempting to get news 2.10.2 running under PRO/VENIX (V7 on a PRO/350). I have been trying to get news compiled on Venix86 for a PC for the last year. I have been beta testing various versions of Venix for Unisource, and they *still* haven't got it right. The latest (2.0) supposedly has a form of medium model compiler, but that is not the problem. In all versions of news (2.10.1, 2.10.2), the compiler barfs on "structure too large" in the structure in params.h. It seems Venturecom allocated a fixed 4k space in the compiler for structure definitions, and don't seem to want to do anything about it. (They know about the problem). The size or type of processor doesn't really matter, as I am writting this on my Altos with the same type of processor(8086) and a *small* model compiler which has compiled news and rn with no problem. If *only* I had known... Randy Suess Chi-Net - Public Access UN*X (312) 545 7535 (h) (312) 283 0559 (system) {ihnp4|ihldt}!wlcrjs!randy