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Document the problems on Windows Vista and the --with-system-malloc option

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2008-12-19 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* INSTALL: Document the problems on Windows Vista and the
--with-system-malloc option to config.bat.
* sedalloc.inp: New file.
2008-11-21 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
* mainmake.v2 (misc): New target.

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@ -99,6 +99,25 @@ incompatible with a program by the same name supplied with DJGPP,
which is used by config.bat. To resolve this, move the DJGPP's `bin'
subdirectory to the front of your PATH environment variable.
Windows Vista has several bugs in its DPMI server related to memory
allocation: it fails DPMI resize memory block function, and it
arbitrarily limits the default amount of DPMI memory to 32MB. To work
around these bugs, first configure Emacs to use the `malloc' function
from the DJGPP library. To this end, run CONFIG.BAT with the
"--with-system-malloc" option:
config --with-system-malloc msdos
make install
In addition, you'll need to install Service Pack 1 (SP1) or later to
Windows Vista and enlarge its DPMI memory limit by setting the value
of this Registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Wow\DpmiLimit
Create this key if it does not exist. The value is a DWORD; setting
it to 536870912 should let Emacs use up to 512MB of memory.
To install the international fonts, chdir to the intlfonts-X.Y
directory created when you unpacked the intlfonts distribution (X.Y is
the version number of the fonts' distribution), and type the following