Hi!

23--2006 16:54 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Devore) wrote to
[email protected]:

>>UPX.      Why you don't use "--8086" option when packing?
MD> option?  Because I don't have an 8086 to test and until just now, nobody
MD> else on the list had one available, so it didn't matter?  Because it still
MD> might not work ?

     But then it will be trouble/bug of HIMEM/EMM386 itself, not UPX.

MD> Or, because it adds 13 bytes to each executable size?

     13? This value is small in absolute measure and in relative measure (it
is only 0.16% even for HIMEM) and this value not forces program image to
cross sector boundary.

MD> Not good enough?  Probably not.  I'll compress EMM386 with the option next
MD> time,

     It will be fine.

MD> but unless a person with an 8086 is available for pre-testing, it may

     Isn't your emulators allow to emulate 8086?

MD> not make a difference.  Does anybody here have an 8086 and can act as a
MD> test subject in a reasonable turn-around time frame?

     You yourself?

MD> Right now I'm just holding the minor NOALTBOOT change to see if anything
MD> else is needed before 1.0, so I'll --8086 the executable when it goes out.

     Fine.

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