Hi!
chris evans wrote:
That is true, ss:sp will always be set to some address. I seen programs
that don't initialize SS:SP at start.
All programs, compiled by OpenWatcom in non-tiny memory model are such.
In that case one would think that
would default to whatever was set prior to it being run (i.e. Dos
stack).
Wrong think. For .com programs, SS points to PSP, SP equal to 0xFFFE
(or less, if there is less than 64k of free memory to run program - for
example, in UMB). For .exe files, +SS:SP always specified in header - this
is why program doesn't not need to change SS:SP after start explicitly,
this may be performed by linker (if stack size and placement if fixed
inside program image). DOS stacks are irrelevant there.
Even though the linker will emit a warning 'No Stack'.
This warning only means, that linker doesn't found in object files
explicit segment with STACK attribute. Then for .exe program it inserts its
own, default segment (512 bytes in size, AFAIR).
if the
program doesn't need it then that will be normal, abeit will have to be
careful.
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