Message-ID: <353BC8BD.711E@cs.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:14:21 -0400
From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt.
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To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
CC: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, nate AT cartsys DOT com, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Available memory
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DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
> Given the meaninglessness of the conversion, it might be better to
> provide a version that prints "there's no equivalent to coreleft in
> protected mode" and exits :-)

There's a certain irony to this solution that I like.  Nevertheless, I
think it might just cause even more vexation on the part of users.  If
you really want to do this, I suggest that coreleft() be defined as a
preprocessor macro that emits an #error during compilation.

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