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From: Mateusz Viste <mateusz@xyz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: initial memory
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2021 09:35:37 +0100
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2021-12-04 at 14:00 +0700, JJ wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Dec 2021 09:45:00 +0100, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> > 2021-12-03 at 00:38 -0800, muta...@gmail.com wrote:  
> >> So for all executables, all of memory is allocated until
> >> released?  
> > 
> > AFAIK this is true only for COM files, where CS=DS=ES=SS.  
> 
> EXE files can be made to allocate the maximum available memory. e.g.
> compiling a tiny model program into an EXE.

"can be made", yes, through fiddling with exe headers, but then that's
done on purpose, and not a by-design behavior, right?

Mateusz