Салям!
9-Июн-2004 16:17 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alain) wrote to
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>>>> (Clear high parts of 32bit regs...)
>>>> How this relates to DOS?
>>> MS DOS basically had no 386 stuff at all (except EMM386). In FreeDOS,
>>> Lawrence comments that this only affected an old version of the GRDB debugger.
>> Well, I disagree that you should close the bug. The point is: we agree
>> that it is a VERY BAD programming practice, etc, etc.
>> But if you implement this (as possibly MS-DOS does), then you get a
MS-DOS is a 16-bit OS.
>> I don't think it's a big deal to do a
>> if (is386+) { XOR EAX, EAX; etc etc}
>> anyway, or am I missing something?
Ok, let suggest, some demo-maker makes demo, which will depends from
size of IO.SYS. How we should "fix" FD in this case?
A> Yes, I agree with Aitor. We recognize it as a bug, if and only if, it
A> breaks MS-DOS compatibility.
"It" not breaks MS-DOS compatability, there is only "breakage" with
alone configuration of alone program coder.
A> That is implicit in FreeDOS manifesto, but
A> if it only breaks an unimportant program, it can be set to low priority
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