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From: nathan@eddie.mit.edu (Nathan Glasser)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: MSC 6.0 SS != DS question
Message-ID: <1990Oct5.024155.19090@eddie.mit.edu>
Date: 5 Oct 90 02:41:55 GMT
Reply-To: nathan@eddie.UUCP (Nathan Glasser)
Organization: MIT EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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Hello,

I've got a question about versions of MSC 6.0 or later for those of you
who are familiar with technical aspects of it.

In versions 5.1 and earlier, all of the (MSDOS) libraries were compiled
with the assumption that SS=DS. While the compiler itself can be told not
to make this assumption, if you're going to use the libraries they supply,
you have to be sure that SS=DS holds (for the most part).

I'm wondering whether the later version(s) of MSC also make this assumption in
their MSDOS libraries. What I want to run is an MSDOS application for which SS
!= DS, and use the MSC library. Note that OS/2 libraries that may be supplied
with the compiler are probably of little use for this purpose, since they
almost certainly use OS/2 specific system calls; however, feel free to correct
me if you have reason to believe this is not the case.

I know it's probably possible to purchase the library source code and
recompile it to use my custom memory model, but obviously if such a memory
model is already supported, I'd like not to have to do this.

Thanks in advance for your responses.
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