[syslinux] SYSLINUX 2.09-pre2

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Feb 3 09:36:39 PST 2004


Murali Krishnan Ganapathy wrote:
> 
> A question for Peter. It should not be difficult to implement a memory 
> manager which uses the memory inbetween the text segment and the stack? 
> In which case, the memory allocation routine will only need to return 
> near pointers. Since we have 64K of memory, and the code size is 4K and 
> the stack should not grow more than a few K (all pointers passed 
> around), there should be more than enough space to allocate space for 
> the menusystem (current max about 20K).
 >

Should be trivial.

	-hpa




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