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Date: | Fri, 26 Jul 2013 04:14:17 -0700 (PDT) |
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Subject: | Re: Beta Test: CWSDPMI r7 - 4GB support |
From: | Georg Potthast <dosusb AT googlemail DOT com> |
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Thank you very much for the information. I did not know about these functions and will try that. Georg Am Freitag, 26. Juli 2013 02:04:22 UTC+2 schrieb Charles Sandmann: > >"Georg Potthast" <dosusb AT googlemail DOT com> wrote in message > > >news:788e2b72-ab43-4ae4-8401-97db486d2615 AT googlegroups DOT com... > > >I have a question which I do not know if this related to CWSDPMI. I develop > > >my programs in a Windows XP DOS box and they >work fine there. When I then > > >try them in real mode DOS they crash due to uninitialized pointers. So I > > >have to work through the >program again and fix that. But some of these > > >problems I may not find and my users observe crashes. > > > > >Does Windows DPMI set the allocated memory to zero for you while CWSDPMI > > >does not? Then a "char* mystring;" is set to >NULL by Windows. > > > > CWSDPMI does not initialize the memory (to improve performance). On a > > single process system, there is no need to do this if the program is > > properly written (no security issues leaking data). > > > > To find these pointers (or to simply fix it), DJGPP has two features which > > allow you to fill the memory, see crt0.h: > > > > /* If set, fill sbrk()'d memory with a constant value. If not, memory > > ** gets whatever happens to have been in there, which breaks some > > ** applications. */ > > #define _CRT0_FLAG_FILL_SBRK_MEMORY 0x0020 > > > > /* If set, fill memory (above) with 0xdeadbeef, else fill with zero. > > ** This is especially useful for debugging uninitialized memory problems. */ > > #define _CRT0_FLAG_FILL_DEADBEEF 0x0040
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