From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harry Kalogirou Subject: Re: ELKS executable, time for a change? Date: 28 Oct 2002 20:52:20 +0200 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1035830992.8585.104.camel@cool> References: <1035807219.5492.84.camel@cool> <20021028121918.GA29181@pulsion.ecs.soton.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20021028121918.GA29181@pulsion.ecs.soton.ac.uk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Al Riddoch Cc: Linux-8086 > I'm afraid I don't have a copy of the sources or docs to hand, so I can't > immediatly look up what I wrote. I seem to remember that the > restricted stack was something that we would just have to live with in > the scheme devised, though it is possible you could allocate holes > for the data segment which do not start at 0x0, and then re-alocate the > data segment to a new hole with a lower start address if the stack > gets too big. > Do you mean moving the "offset" at which the actual data starts in the segment? Wouldn't that require a recompile of the program? > Al > (who has recently been discovered not to be dead) !!!!!!! Harry