Memory Error During Compile

[Randal Ormond]

Hello,
I have a PC running DOS 6.21 and Borland Turbo C++ 2.01 is installed. The
following DOS command line command compiles the source code with no errors:
c:>tcc -mm -w copts.c tcibm.obj
When I try to compile the same cpots.s code while in the IDE an out of
memory error is generated after compiling 7K lines of code. The same error
is generated when I have the debugging set to OFF.
The original code was developped when the compiler was new and I just
inheritted this mess. I need to be able to debug the code and step through
it when I test my changes. How can I get the IDE to compile and let me debug
the code?
All help is greatly appreciated!

Randal

[Ed Mulroy [TeamB]]

My guess is that with the IDE loaded the remaining memory is not sufficient
to allow the file to be compiled. 7K lines of code is fairly big for a C
source file.

Just for the heck of it, try this:

Start tc.exe and before loading any file or project do a Compile|Get Info
and look at the file size and current file entries.

Now load copts.c and do it again. Compare the results.

I am getting 262K for available memory with no file loaded but I am in a DOS
box under XP.

In any case, if you add the -v option to the command line and build it, I
think you might be able to debug the program in the IDE. If not then break
it up into a couple of source files.

"@alcatel-lucent.com" Are you in Raleigh?

. Ed

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[Bob Gonder]

Randal Ormond wrote:

>I have a PC running DOS 6.21 and Borland Turbo C++ 2.01 is installed.

In addition to Ed's suggestions...

Check your emm386 settings.

Make sure you have used LoadHigh on everything
you can in config.sys and autoexec.bat

IIRC there was a testdmpi.exe in the \bin folder.
Run that and see what it says.
There should be a read.me that tells about it too.

I had config.sys setup to ask/load about 6 different
configurations depending upon what I wanted to do.

[Randal Ormond]

Hi Ed,

Thanks for your help. I'll give it a shot. Do you know where (on the web?)
the options are described?

I'm in Petaluma CA.

Randal

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[Bob Gonder]

Randal Ormond wrote:

>Thanks for your help. I'll give it a shot. Do you know where (on the web?)
>the options are described?

tcc -? should get you most of the important ones.

You can also set the options in the IDE, save the project,
and use prj2mak to create a make file that will show the options.