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CWSDPMI r7 for FPC (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 23.11.2010, 00:03

> Okay. But (asking Rugxulo here) what was the disadvantage of r7 again? I
> can only find
> this
> document, which indicates you can (pre)configure r7 not to use 4 MiB
> pages to avoid the issues.

4 MB pages (?? Pentium circa 1993) didn't exist in either DPMI spec (0.9, 1.0), and VCPI (EMM386), slightly older, also was unaware of it. So some apps might break. But CWS has admitted to being very careful not to break complying apps. Badly-written ones? That's a different story, but he doesn't want to accidentally break things in reasonable places. But honestly I don't know how much he utilizes 4 MB by default, it might only be for certain amounts of RAM or certain situations, so honestly I'm not sure it's the default all the time.

Complete thread:

• FPC 2.4.2RC1 - marcov, 15.10.2010, 23:25
  • FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 16.10.2010, 04:28
    • FPC 2.4.2RC1 - marcov, 18.10.2010, 20:32
      • FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 18.10.2010, 23:36
        • FPC 2.4.2RC1 -- DJGPP Binutils - Rugxulo, 19.10.2010, 09:46
          • GPL source hosting requirement - ecm, 19.10.2010, 14:27
            • GPL source hosting requirement - Rugxulo, 19.10.2010, 22:33
              • GPL source hosting requirement - ecm, 19.10.2010, 22:57
                • GPL source hosting requirement - Rugxulo, 20.10.2010, 00:35
                  • GPL source hosting requirement - ecm, 20.10.2010, 00:40
            • GPL source hosting requirement - marcov, 20.10.2010, 09:47
              • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 21.10.2010, 15:47
                • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 21.10.2010, 16:36
                  • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 22.10.2010, 05:14
                    • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - DOS386, 23.10.2010, 09:21
                      • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 23.10.2010, 10:16
                • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - marcov, 18.11.2010, 21:15
                  • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 19.11.2010, 15:05
                    • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - marcov, 22.11.2010, 15:23
                      • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - Rugxulo, 23.11.2010, 00:29
                        • LZMA SDK 4.42 for FPC - marcov, 25.11.2010, 11:55
                          • AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire - Rugxulo, 25.12.2010, 12:39
                            • AdvanceZip / BinUtils / CMT Solitaire / DOS DEATH / LZMA - DOS386, 26.12.2010, 08:04
                            • AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire - marcov, 01.01.2011, 00:40
                              • AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire - Rugxulo, 01.01.2011, 05:47
                                • AdvanceZip / FBC BinUtils / CMT Solitaire - marcov, 01.01.2011, 13:02
                                  • no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - Rugxulo, 01.01.2011, 14:03
                                    • no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - Laaca, 01.01.2011, 15:12
                                      • no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - marcov, 01.01.2011, 16:56
                                    • no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - marcov, 01.01.2011, 17:46
                                      • no FPC Go32v2 maintainer(s) / Unicode kills us all - Rugxulo, 03.01.2011, 09:44
                                        • BUG - DOS386, 08.03.2011, 14:37
                                          • BUG - FPC 2.5.1 snapshot - Rugxulo, 08.03.2011, 22:40
                                          • BUG - Japheth, 10.03.2011, 12:17
                                          • BUG - Laaca, 10.03.2011, 12:31
                                            • BUG - DOS386, 03.05.2011, 09:48
        • UPX-UCL 3.07 - Rugxulo, 20.10.2010, 03:44
        • FPC 2.4.2RC1 - marcov, 04.11.2010, 09:49
          • FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 08.11.2010, 22:27
            • FPC 2.4.2RC1 - marcov, 10.11.2010, 20:38
              • FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Laaca, 11.11.2010, 00:06
              • FPC 2.4.2RC1 - Rugxulo, 11.11.2010, 04:03
              • FPC 2.4.2 (final) released - Rugxulo, 14.11.2010, 20:11
                • "for .. in" - Rugxulo, 24.11.2010, 01:08
          • CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - Rugxulo, 15.11.2010, 22:36
            • CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - marcov, 18.11.2010, 21:13
              • CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - Laaca, 19.11.2010, 11:10
                • CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - Rugxulo, 19.11.2010, 14:52
                  • CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - marcov, 22.11.2010, 13:00
                    • CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - ecm, 22.11.2010, 14:43
                      • CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - marcov, 22.11.2010, 15:21
                        • CWSDPMI r5 vs. r7 (paq8o8z) - ecm, 22.11.2010, 16:08
                          • CWSDPMI r7 for FPC - Rugxulo, 23.11.2010, 00:03