Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:48:07 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
cc: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: info core dumps
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On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> > I'm not sure.  Maybe only inside the function that could potentially
> > access such areas.
> 
> But if the BIOS font might be in the HMA, then surely there are all
> sorts of other things that could be there.

In practice, there are no other cases that programs crash because
accessing HMA.  And I believe A20 is on in most (all?) machines anyway
(see my other mail).  I wouldn't suggest to complicate every program
by calls to an XMS driver, unless there's a really good reason.