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From: max AT alcyone DOT darkside DOT com (Erik Max Francis)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Overlaying
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 95 07:42:51 PST
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"A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk> writes:

> In my emacs that I am writing in Gnu C++, there is a fair length of program
> text which is obeyed once on starting and not again. I can't call it as a
> child process, as if I did the child would need to know many subroutine entry
> addresses in the parent and to write to arrays in the parent. To save space,
> is there any way I can get a particular subroutine X() to be put right at the
> top end of the fully assembled program, so that after running it I can (how?)
> move the start-of-free-store pointer back down to release the space occupied
> by the code of X()?

Is the portion of the initialization code _really_ large enough to 
warrant such measures?

Are you sure you're stripping the COFF of symbols before converting it 
to an EXE? (link with -s or run coff2exe on the COFF)?


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