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On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> Having a way to disallow using the static allocation should be easy
> if we use compiler magic to test that the LDT entry is constant and
> 0. If it is, all is ok (assuming that I'm not mistaken that we use a
> 0 entry to indicate dynamic allocation -- I haven't actually paid
> that close attention to it). If the LDT entry is non-constant, it
> can still be 0 of course but I expect that to be a weird border case.

note that a 0 value turns out to be valid.. we had thougth it was
invalid when we did the dynamic code....