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OWB in DOS (Announce)

posted by Japheth , Germany (South), 26.01.2010, 07:27

> - there were a lot of crashes with OWB in hx due to heap corruption. The
> current heap allocation function in v2.17 does therefore internally add 8
> bytes to each heap request. This makes the thing significantly more
> stable. Apparently Windows some something quite similar, since the crashes
> occured in hx only. Also, when a heap item is released, some additional
> integrity checks are done and if they fail, the heap is displayed and an
> exception is raised. This will be temporarily only.

the reason for the kernel heap corruption has been found finally. The additional integrity checks were removed. The OWB browser runs ok now.

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MS-DOS forever!

Complete thread:

• OWB in DOS - Japheth, 09.01.2010, 11:03 (Announce)
  • OWB in DOS - Laaca, 09.01.2010, 18:05
  • OWB in DOS - Only White Board ??? | HX fixes :-) - DOS386, 14.01.2010, 09:14
    • OWB in DOS - Only White Board ??? | HX fixes :-) - Japheth, 14.01.2010, 17:12
      • Try harder !!! - DOS386, 16.01.2010, 04:55
        • Try harder !!! - Japheth, 16.01.2010, 08:35
          • Try harder !!! - DOS386, 16.01.2010, 09:09
            • Try harder !!! - Japheth, 16.01.2010, 15:07
              • problem with MSVCR80.DLL - Laaca, 16.01.2010, 20:27
                • problem with MSVCR80.DLL - Japheth, 19.01.2010, 09:57
          • Try harder !!! - rr, 17.01.2010, 18:57
            • Try harder !!! - Japheth, 19.01.2010, 09:58
  • OWB in DOS - Japheth, 22.01.2010, 09:22
    • OWB in DOS - DOS386, 24.01.2010, 11:08
    • OWB in DOS - Japheth, 26.01.2010, 07:27
      • OWB in DOS - DOS386, 27.01.2010, 12:22
      • OWB in DOS - DOS386, 29.01.2010, 11:22
        • OWB in DOS - Japheth, 29.01.2010, 13:31
          • OWB in DOS | Formula1 - DOS386, 06.02.2010, 09:33