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From: dtsteen@dahlia.waterloo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Yet another 1.4 wish
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Date: 17 Jun 89 00:54:40 GMT
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In article <3418@cps3xx.UUCP> porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka) writes:
>>In article <16905@louie.udel.EDU> MROBINSON@wash-vax.bbn.com writes:
>>[dtsteen@dahlia.waterloo.edu wishes that the stack size become
>> part of the executable]
>
>I think it would be a simple (I don't actually know) thing to do to
>add an extra block type to execuables. Call it an extra block or
>whatever. This block could contain standardized info about
>stack size (like BSS blocks), virtual or protected memory support and
>the like.

That's what my original suggestion was:  add a hunk type, like
HUNK_BSS, except that it is HUNK_STACK.  I can see the problems though;
the new hunk type would break the loader in 1.3 and previous versions
of the system, so 1.4 programs could only be loaded on machines running
1.4 - not very appealing.  But it could still be kludged the way ARP
apparently does it.  But the people in whose power it is to make this
kind of change have not responded...

Markus Wandel
(519) 884-9669