From: jlrubin AT bway DOT net (Josh Rubin)
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Subject: Re: wanted: demand zero pages for uninitialized static data
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On Fri, 5 Jun 1998 17:09:44 -0700, "Andrew Crabtree"
<andrewc AT rosemail DOT rose DOT hp DOT com> wrote:

>>djgpp stub clears the "BSS" section. This causes a lot
>
>This is AFAIK required.  You always assume that an unitialized global is
>zeroed.
>

I didn't make my question clear enough.
In Dec VAX terminology, a "demand zero page" is an uncommited page
that is allocated and filled with zeroes the first time it is
referenced. I hoped that DPMI supported such a thing and all I had to
do was twiddle some page attribute bits somewhere.

If it were that simple, I was going to suggest that DJGPP do this by
default.

Josh Rubin
jlrubin AT bway DOT net