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- From: George Simunovich <george@prism.nmt.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 1994 18:58:27 -0600
- Message-Id: <199406280058.SAA16027@scarlet.nmt.edu>
- To: mint@atari.archive.umich.edu
- Subject: MiNT problems...
-
-
- Hello all,
-
- I was having a lot of the same problems that people seem to be having.
- My problems were that some of the GNU utilities quit working after
- patching MiNT 1.10 to h1 and later. I found the problem was GNU C's
- builtin alloca routine. It seems that alloca was not requesting memory
- from the OS but getting the memory from the program's (stack or heap not
- real sure).
-
- After looking it seems that the symbol _stksize is set to 0 by default (
- minimum memory). After increasing this to 20K or more for all my programs
- the problem disappeared. So it seems that the patched MiNT changes
- something for memory allocatment for a process. Someone who knows want
- to confirm this? To me this is a MiNT bug as programs that once ran OK
- no longer run. I haven't looked into the patches or MiNT so I'm not sure
- if this could be the answer to these other problems, but couldn't hurt to
- try.
-
- Hope this helps,
-
- George
- george@nmt.edu
-