Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/02/18/05:31:40
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Scott Frazer wrote:
> I actually had tried uncommenting the _go32_dpmi_blah_blah line in
> w16selec.c because the one in dosfns.c looked like it would be called
> only once. I figured that having a little unfreed memory around
> wouldn't be too bad, but there could be some major accumulation from
> kill/copy's. It did work for small kill/yank's, but when I killed a
> big chunk of code then tried to yank it back I got dumped to the DOS
> prompt. No signal explanation, no traceback, nothing ... just c:\
Bad news. The code on w16select.c only allocates and deallocates DOS
memory when you kill text longer than 16KB; for smaller kills it uses the
transfer buffer. The above means that NT indeed dislikes the way we
deallocate DOS memory.
I would still like to know whether a small test program that allocates and
deallocates DOS memory crashes on NT (it might be something specific to
Emacs).
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