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|    Mateusz Viste to Terje Mathisen    |
|    Re: EXE program stack setup questions    |
|    16 Oct 18 10:06:17    |
      From: mateusz@nospicedham.wont.tell              On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 11:44:43 +0200, Terje Mathisen wrote:       > For a Tiny model program, i.e. COM file, you cannot control this, you       > will effectively always get a single 64K segment with SP pointing at a       > 16-bit word == 0000.              This may be a stupid question, but is the COM-allocated segment really       guaranteed to be 64K in size? What if the largest contiguous available       memory block is only, say, 48K in size? Would DOS refuse to load it       instead of using whatever is possible?              Mateusz              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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