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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject: Re: INT 31 0303 Win XP bug
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com, muller AT cerbere DOT u-strasbg DOT fr
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:24:33 -0600 (CST)
Cc: core AT freepascal DOT org
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>     After trying for a while to get the mouse 
> to work for our go32v2 FP IDE, 
> Florian Klaempfl and I finally discovered that the INT 31 0303 
> has an XP specific bug:
> 
> when the callback address is called the es register is null
> instead of having the value given in es register
> when calling the function 0303.
> This leads to a crash of the NTVDM.
> 
>    Setting this value to the djgpp_ds_alias made the mouse callback to work correctly for XP.
> As this is only done if es is null it shouldn't break any
> working target.
> 
> This info might be useful for SET, Rhide and maybe allegro,
> but maybe there is some Free Pascal specific code that triggers this bug...

Thanks for researching this.  We could add a fix for this to the go32
wrapper functions, but I know many (most?) programs actually provide
their own wrappers or write the callback handler in assembler?