Hello!
The biggest issue is that no one really understands what happens :-(At first, MiKRO experienced crashes (before main ?) when running programs using nearly all the available TPA memory. So he added a nice message, and he increased the size of the preliminary stack.
With preliminary stack you mean the stack before the Mshrink()? This happened under FreeMiNT? How can this reproduced? Inside mint.cnf, was there TPA_INITIALMEM set and to which value (and how many RAM does the machine have).
Keith and Alan reverted MiKRO's patch, and everything went OK again.
This only affect crt0.s?
Memory management is critical, especially in a multitasking non-protected environment... So it is probably better to do what you suggest - reverting to the original preliminary stack (while keeping the nice message ?).
This question I would answer with: go back to the existing behaviour. This was used since ages inside mintlib and didn't made problems until now.
Regards, Frank -- ATARI FALCON 060 // MILAN 060 ----------------------------- http://sparemint.org/ e-Mail: fnaumann@boerde.de