Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 13:35:40 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: 2 questions: 1)Codewright 2)Windows NT
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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.