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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 16:18:40 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Passing FLAGS from RMCBs
In-Reply-To: <9902171404.AA12410@clio.rice.edu>
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On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> No, the reason is probably that it was an oversight or easier to program
> this way.

Even better.

Is it still a good idea to mask off some dangerous flags before passing 
them back to real mode, or should we just let the lusers trash their 
machines? ;-)

> The wrappers also suffer from bad stack management among other things and
> have always needed some TLC

Can you say a couple of words about what's bad in stack management there?

And what's a TLC?

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