From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles W. Sandmann)
Subject:	Re: djgpp and OS/2
To:	peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
Date:	Thu, 9 Dec 1993 14:51:40 -0600 (CST)
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP Mailing List)

> When I ran gcc 1.10 under OS/2 2.1, it would always crash after about 14
> compilations.  The speculation was that it was consuming some resource,
> probably selectors.  1.11 has _not_ fixed this, although I now get a hang
> rather than a crash.  But, using the real-mode version of gcc (gcc254rm.zip)
> does fix the problem.

I investigated the selector issue, and it did not fix the problem.  Since 
we had no other ideas (this was unique to OS/2, so probably an OS/2 bug),
and GCC-RM was a workaround, we decided to document this and go ahead.  NT
has a similar but different bug.

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