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- Subject: Re: MiNT 1.10 re-sync
- Date: Tue, 07 Jun 1994 17:18:22 -0700
- From: Howard Chu <howard@harry.lloyd.com>
-
-
- I think it would be helpful if you'd create a patch against the patched
- source... It would be a bit difficult to undo a previous bad patch
- (i.e., create a reverse patch for a bad patch), especially if it came
- from Juergen's earlier megapatch and not from me wrongly applying newer
- patches.
-
- Ok, willdo.
-
- > [ sticky text ]
-
- > Well, I must admit I didn't spend a whole lot of thought on the implementat
- ion.
- > How about if we change the way memory is allocated... Grab memory from one
- end,
- > except start at the opposite end for shared text regions. E.g., always star
- t
- > from the top of memory when allocating in the default case - stack, bss, da
- ta,
- > non-shared text, and always allocate shared text regions from the bottom
- > of memory. The problem would still exist, but it would be lessened, I think
- .
-
- In addition to your suggestions, what about making this turn-off-able from
- mint.cnf?
-
- I suppose that would be easy enough. "STICKYTEXT=OFF" or somesuch, eh?
-
- Upon reflection, it would probably be easier to load shared text regions at the
- top of memory, and continue creating the TPA from lower memory. That way you
- don't have to worry about artificially limiting the amount of memory you give
- to a newly spawned process. (I wonder how topdown solved this problem...)
- -- Howard
-