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Date:	Sat, 13 Apr 2024 10:12:25 +0300
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Subject:	Re: Error handling of ECX in __dpmi_set_page_attributes()
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> Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2024 02:37:17 +0200
> From: Pali <pali AT pali DOT im>
> Cc: cwsdpmi AT earthlink DOT net, dj AT delorie DOT com, sezeroz AT gmail DOT com,
> 	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
> 
> On Friday 12 April 2024 16:32:40 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 20:48:44 +0200
> > > From: Pali <pali AT pali DOT im>
> > > Cc: Charles Sandmann <cwsdpmi AT earthlink DOT net>, dj AT delorie DOT com,
> > > 	sezeroz AT gmail DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
> > > 
> > > On Thursday 21 March 2024 09:22:17 Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Should we at least check in the
> > > > function's code that the value in ECX is non-negative and smaller than
> > > > the value of ECX set by the caller?
> > > 
> > > That is a good idea. Here is an alternative change which does this check:
> > 
> > Thanks, installed.
> 
> I would propose to extend documentation for DPMI 0507h function to
> include information about modifying the size member.
> 
> --- src/libc/dpmi/api/d0507.txh
> +++ src/libc/dpmi/api/d0507.txh
> @@ -27,2 +27,10 @@ attribute word.
>  
> +On error this function changes @code{@var{info}->size} to the number
> +of modified pages as reported by DPMI function AX = 0x0507.  If DPMI
> +function reports that all input pages were modified or even more
> +number of pages than the input number of pages were modified then it
> +is treated as invalid value reported by DPMI function and so this
> +functions changes @code{@var{info}->size} to 0 as probably no page
> +was modified.
> +
>  The DJGPP startup code calls this function to uncommit the so-called

Thanks, installed (with some punctuation and wording changes).

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