inital SS:SP value in MZ

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vid
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vid

what is SS:SP value, when no stack is reserved in header (no "stack 100h")?

27 Feb 2006, 11:09

Tomasz Grysztar
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Tomasz Grysztar

From section 2.4.1:

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"stack" directive sets up the stack for MZ executable. It can be followed by numerical expression specifying the size of stack to be created automatically or by the far address of initial stack frame when you want to set up the stack manually. When no stack is defined, the stack of default size 4096 bytes will be created.

27 Feb 2006, 13:38

vid
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oh... and what happens at "stack 0"? is ss:sp just pointer to some invalid area?

28 Feb 2006, 00:36

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vid wrote:

oh... and what happens at "stack 0"? is ss:sp just pointer to some invalid area?

Don't EXE files require a stack of some sort? Maybe "stack 0" provides enough for it.

26 Oct 2006, 01:15

Goplat

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fasm does not allow "stack 0", but if you put a 0 in the SP field of the header the stack pointer does indeed start at 0. Of course, it would wrap around when you used it, and if not enough extra memory was allocated for a 64kB stack you would be overwriting some stuff in memory.

26 Oct 2006, 01:42

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