Hi Richard! On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 19:38:14 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote:
> A DJGPP version of arachne would get rid of x-swap and therfor x-swap errors, > because it uses the protected mode, and this has a 32 bit flat memory modell. Yes, it would get rid of x-swap errors, but not of the errors at all, because: > They are caused by bugs in arachne. It would simply produce protection faults (if one is happy enough), or hard to detect and debug internal errors of "buffer overflow" kind. Please remember that flat memory model has also some disadvantages when compared to segmented model: it almost doesn't use the hardware memory protection capabilities of Intel chips. Of course it has also some advantages (near pointers only, simplicity, etc.) Greetings, Michal
