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Date: Sun, 28 May 1995 09:52:15 +0300
From: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
To: junaid AT dino DOT eng DOT monash DOT edu DOT AU, dj
Subject: Re: Compiling gdb, dpmi DS:VRAM hack.
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> implemented it.  It's easier to just not call malloc() while you're
> updating conventional memory.

Does this mean that applications shouldn't call malloc() while accessing
conventional memory?  I thought that the segment value stays constant, it's
only the base address/limit which change, so a ``well-behaved'' application
shouldn't bother.  If I'm wrong, this should be documented.

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