> Even without MMU overlapping 8086 segments allow the use of this <-Space-> > for stack or data+bss of other processes. Wonder if/how this is handled > in elks (lacking the time to Use-The-Source...) Only if you use far pointers which is incredibly expensive, otherwise taking the address of a stack based variable breaks. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html