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- Subject: emx 0.8f patch #1: error in history.doc
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- This patch removes a documentation error.
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- *** history.do~ Thu Jan 07 17:18:24 1993
- --- history.doc Thu Jan 07 17:18:24 1993
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- *** 69,80 ****
- changed, that is, the stack object is used for the stack. Programs
- that use emx.dll and are linked with LINK386 and need more stack
- space than declared in the .EXE file and the stack size declared in
- ! the .EXE file is 16 KB or less, don't work with emx 0.8f and later.
- ! The default stack size (defined by emxomf) is 8 KB. Therefore
- ! programs are unaffected unless they use more stack than declared by
- ! the STACKSIZE statement or the /STACK option of LINK386 or by the
- ! .STACK segment in an OBJ file and that stack size is 16 KB or
- ! smaller. No real programs should be affected. Note that the
- (obsolete) Limited Availability release of OS/2 allocates space in
- SWAPPER.DAT for all pages of the stack object. Therefore, you
- should use a stack size of 16 KB or smaller and the -mprobe option
- --- 69,80 ----
- changed, that is, the stack object is used for the stack. Programs
- that use emx.dll and are linked with LINK386 and need more stack
- space than declared in the .EXE file and the stack size declared in
- ! the .EXE file is greater than 16 KB, don't work with emx 0.8f and
- ! later. The default stack size (defined by emxomf) is 8 KB.
- ! Therefore programs are unaffected unless they use more stack than
- ! declared by the STACKSIZE statement or the /STACK option of LINK386
- ! or by the .STACK segment in an OBJ file and that stack size is 16 KB
- ! or smaller. No real programs should be affected. Note that the
- (obsolete) Limited Availability release of OS/2 allocates space in
- SWAPPER.DAT for all pages of the stack object. Therefore, you
- should use a stack size of 16 KB or smaller and the -mprobe option
-
- Eberhard Mattes (mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de)
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