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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
Subject: Re: A better stack dump
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 18:00:28 -0700
Message-ID: <19980527010023.AAB19094@ppp114.cartsys.com>

At 07:23  5/26/1998 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Mon, 25 May 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
>> How about his other idea, that the page below the end of the stack be
unmapped?
>
>I don't recall the particulars.  How should this work, since what's below 
>the stack is usually the locked stack used for exception processing?  How 
>do you unmap that and still get everything to work?

I think the idea was that 4K of dead space be inserted (perhaps just by
padding the size allocated for the stack), and then that page is unmapped. 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com



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