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to: DARRYL GREGORASH
from: CHRIS BERKHOUT
date: 1997-12-26 19:00:00
subject: Memory Allocation

 CB> Well behaved programs will resize themselves 
 CB> I guess that with .EXE's there is some kind of compiler
 CB> directive  or it auto calculates the size, but i don't
 CB> exactly know.
 DG> Linker directive actually; the code to resize allocated memory is
 DG> placed in the .exe loader, which is written at link time. 
        So the code for that is run after the .EXE is started,
 rather than DOS doing it during loading based on values from the header ?
Chris.
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