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echo: os2prog
to: Phil Crown
from: David Noon
date: 1996-07-13 18:28:00
subject: sys3171

On Tuesday, 96/07/09, Phil Crown wrote to Doug Nazar about "sys3171"
as follows:

PC>  DN> Do you know if Borland's _beginthread() uses the STACK_SPARSE or
PC>  DN> STACK_COMMITED flag to DosCreateThread?
PC> 
PC> I don't know, maybe David knows.

Hi Phil,

It's STACK_SPARSE. Borland's kludge to 'fix' the bug is to change it
to STACK_COMMITTED, rather than fix the compiler to generate stack
probes.

Regards

Dave


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