From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Jun 9 18:06:39 2009 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [MiNT] Corruption of high TPA From: Alan Hourihane To: Vincent =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rivi=E8re?= Cc: mint In-Reply-To: <4A2ED03D.1090600@freesbee.fr> References: <4A2ED03D.1090600@freesbee.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:03:49 +0100 Message-Id: <1244585029.10932.11.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: alanh@fairlite.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id n59M6caa017499 On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 23:12 +0200, Vincent Rivière wrote: > Hello. > > I have compiled some programs with the latest MiNTLib, everything works well > on my usual ARAnyM + EasyMiNT setup. > > Bur I tried them on another more complicated MiNT setup, with several > resident programs, accessories, etc. and the new programs crashes in the > startup code ! > > I managed to reproduce the crash with the very simple assembler program > attached to this message. It is a stand-alone program, it does not use the > MiNTLib but it mimics its behaviour. Basically, it initializes the stack at > the top of the TPA, and displays a message. > > On my problematic MiNT setup, it crashes even before displaying the message! > But if I subtract 36 bytes from my new stack, it works. So it looks like the > 36 highest bytes of the TPA are getting corrupted by something. > > Could you please confirm that this small program is correct without any > subtract, so my MiNT setup is broken ? Works fine here. Alan.