Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 19:24:10 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
cc: DJGPP-WORKERS <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: info core dumps
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On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Martin Str|mberg wrote:

> > Btw, you seem to have a binary which is different from what I use (and
> > what should be in the latest txi312b.zip): the instruction where it
> > crashes for you is at 0x1cb5f in my version.  I'm sending you the
> > unstripped binary together with my version of libc.a in a uuencoded
> > .zip file attached below.
> 
> Strange. You can make it crash, then?

No, it doesn't crash for me, but it might be because of the different
system configuration which remaps the BIOS differently.

> >       /* Get the pointer to the 8x8 font table.  */
> >       p = (unsigned char *)malloc(2560); /* 256 chars X 8x10 pixels */
> 
> Here is some protected memory allocated. But I can't see where it is used?

(Blush) It's not.  It's a left-over from a previous version that
copied the table to the internal buffer, instead of moving it
directly.