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    Detecting a signedness bug in vintage compiled Pascal programs

    The bug We previously reported that MASM.EXE version 1.00, a program published in 1981 by Microsoft and IBM for MS-DOS, hangs or exits when run with some precise free memory amounts. We showed that this is due to a signedness error in the stack setup code emitted by the compiler. All other...
    • Christophe Lenclud
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