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From: mguyott@eriador.prime.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: "minalloc" feature in .def file.
Message-ID: <149000009@eriador>
Date: 1 Mar 91 18:04:24 GMT
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Nf-From: eriador.prime.com!mguyott    Mar  1 11:41:00 1991


Has anyone been able to successfully use the "minalloc" feature for the
SEGMENTS section in a windows .def file?  On page 10-8 of the SDK ref. vol.
2 it defines the syntax for the SEGMENTS section as follows:

SEGMENTS segmentname [CLASS 'class-name'] [minalloc]\
[FIXED|MOVEABLE]
[DISCARDABLE][SHARED|NONSHARED][PRELOAD|LOADONCALL]

minalloc is defined as an optional integer value that specifies the
minimum allocation size for the segment.

The following works for me:

SEGMENTS
    _TEXT       CLASS 'CODE' PRELOAD MOVEABLE DISCARDABLE
    NEW_TEXT    CLASS 'CODE' PRELOAD MOVEABLE

But the following generates a linker error:

SEGMENTS
    _TEXT       CLASS 'CODE' PRELOAD MOVEABLE DISCARDABLE
    NEW_TEXT    CLASS 'CODE' 4096 PRELOAD MOVEABLE

Has anyone been able to get the "minalloc" feature to work?         Marc
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