out of memory on dos programs

[Sylvain Petreolle]

dont try to run it a real windows...
it tries to set the date incorrectly when run under wcmd.exe.
(no  "Program too big" though)

perhaps a problem into the exe loader ?
 --- Eric Noack <eric.noack at gmx.de> a écrit : > i get a "Program too
big" error on all programs compiled
> with the "PowerBASIC" compiler pbc.exe 3.00c
> 
> and similar out of memory errors on other dos programs, when running
> them under wine
> 
> to my pleasure the pbc compiler itself runs fine under wine
> 
> here is an example:
> 
> http://gemia.de/test/test.bas
> 
> a hello world BASIC source
> 
> http://gemia.de/test/test.exe
> 
> the binary compiled with pbc 3.00c under wine
> 
> http://gemia.de/test/pbc.exe
> 
> same compiler
> 
> on every program compiled with a PowerBASIC compiler i get
> 
> "Program too big"
> when running it under wine.
> this string is given out by the executable when failing to allocate
> some memory
> 
> i tryed to disassemble the compiled program to check what type of
> memory allocation
> should have taken place, but my dos disassembler (sourcer) failed
> under wine
> with an out of memory error, too.
> 
> now is this a bug in wine, not handling some ms-dos memory allocation
> requests,
> or did i just miss some configuration option to tell wine to give dos
> programs
> more memory to allocate?
> 
> i hope this is not OT too much
> 
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> PS: here is the console output
> 
> >raven at VikingPC wine $ cat test.bas
> >print "hello world"
> >raven at VikingPC wine $ wine pbc test.bas
> >Warning: unprotecting the first 64KB of memory to allow real-mode
> calls.
> >         NULL pointer accesses will no longer be caught.
> >PowerBASIC Compiler Version 3.00c  Copyright (c) 1989-1993 by Robert
> S. Zale
> >PowerBASIC Inc. *  Brentwood, CA, USA
> >F:\TEST\WINE\TEST.BAS
> >3 statements, 2 lines
> >Compile time: 00:00.1 Compilation speed: 1800 stmts/minute
> >272 bytes code, 2800 bytes data, 2048 bytes stack
> >Segments(1): 1k
> >raven at VikingPC wine $ wine test.exe
> >Warning: unprotecting the first 64KB of memory to allow real-mode
> calls.
> >         NULL pointer accesses will no longer be caught.
> >Program too bigraven at VikingPC wine $
> 
> I found the string "Program too big" in test.exe at position
> 0000:2203 hex
> I guess its just given out after failing to allocate some memory ;)
> as i said my disassembler doesnt work doe to some similar error
> 
>  

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