Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sask.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!alberta!sask!mcdonald From: mcdonald@sask.UUCP (Shane McDonald) Newsgroups: net.micro.6809 Subject: Can someone explain this? Message-ID: <279@sask.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 17:37:05 EDT Article-I.D.: sask.279 Posted: Thu Sep 19 17:37:05 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 05:34:41 EDT Distribution: net Organization: University of Saskatchewan, CANADA Lines: 15 Can someone explain this to me? I have a CoCo II running OS9 with WordPak II installed. I compiled a long C program, and the size of the program ended up being about 5/8 the size of my free memory. But, when I tried to run the program, I got an error message saying that there wasn't enough memory. Oh, darn, I thought. That's when I discovered that the program was only about 5/8 the size of my memory, not including, of course, memory used for the stack. Perplexed, I decided to see if I could load the program into memory. It loaded fine, and told me I still had about 20K of memory left. So, I tried to run it now. It ran fine with no memory problems. Can someone explain why I had to load it into memory first? -- Shane McDonald (ihnp4!sask!mcdonald)