DOS ain't dead

a.out (Developers)

posted by kerravon , Ligao, Free World North, 13.10.2025, 16:22

Oh - I also see in my code that I have:

mov cx, offset DGROUP:_edata

My initial reaction is - how on earth does this work? That's an incomplete address. In large/huge memory model, how does a.out carry the required information to know that I just want the offset portion?

If that's not magic, I don't know what is.

Complete thread:

• a.out - kerravon, 13.10.2025, 16:03 (Developers)
  • a.out - kerravon, 13.10.2025, 16:22
    • a.out - kerravon, 13.10.2025, 16:24
    • a.out - boeckmann, 13.10.2025, 19:45