Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/12/06:52:34
On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Robert Hoehne wrote:
> I don't know exactly if the DOS memory is somewhere freed at
> startup (the crash was already at startup), but for installing
> the mouse callback function I have to allocate some DOS memory
> and to lock many variables and functions, probably NT doesn't
> like also allocating (at least in many small chunks) DOS memory.
No, as far as I know the allocate call succeeds, but when you free DOS
memory, you crash. It can be demonstrated with a simple test program that
allocates a small DOS buffer, then frees is.
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