[uae] Re: No E-UAE on GP2X :(

  • From: Jochen Becher <jochen_becher@xxxxxx>
  • To: uae@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:19:10 +0200

Am Dienstag, den 10.10.2006, 18:09 -0400 schrieb Richard Drummond:
> Hi Jochen
> 
> On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:25, Jochen Becher wrote:
> > The current E-UAE version needs 33 MB of bss (uninitialized storage for
> > arrays etc) after loading. This is too much for GP2X so I will stop
> > porting it (or is there any possibility to reduce the size of some
> > variables dramatically, e.g. spixels from drawing.c?)
> 
> Pass -DOS_WITHOUT_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT in CFLAGS when configuring. This will 
> make 
> E-UAE allocate sprite tables, etc. dynamically. The Amiga build uses this, 
> since 33 megs of BSS is too much there too.

But I have seen that there is an xmalloc() which allocates the same size
of memory later on. So it doesn't help if the system does not have that
much memory at all (typically on a GP2X you have only about 30 to 40 MB
free).

> 
> Cheers,
> Rich
> 

Regards, Jochen


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