Re: E-waste
- Posted by jimcbrown (admin) Apr 17, 2013
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This was essential to working in a DOS environment in which malloc doesn't always return addresses as a multiple of 8.
We have align4 code as part of managed memory. That should have taken care of this.
Ah but I have always said the *default* should be what will work on the greatest number of systems. Though you are right, it should have taken care of things
Agreed in full.
Can you identify when align4 support was removed? I just checked trunk and it looks like it's still in there.
the distributor forgot and we released something that needed Win2k or newer to run.
Can you provide a list of what was released that was built without align4? I'll see if I can track down the distributor and get it fixed. (Yes, we may have to rerelease a bunch of old releases. That's worth it imvho.)
Well, what I meant to say is that it isn't default and I think it is a bad thing that it isn't the default. Support was never removed AFAIK but what I know is seldom up to date about EUPHORIA.
Again, agreed, it should be the default. I don't recall now why it isn't the default. I'll change this if there are no objections.
Of course, it's possible that, even if it's still in there, it became broken at some point. It's not enough to have the code in there to bitrot, we need active 9x testers to make sure that it's still working. At this point, I'm not sure that we have any.
I have more rewarding things to do than program for free right now.
That's the real problem.