Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/04/21/04:20:50
On Sat, 20 Apr 1996, Thomas Nilsson wrote:
> I recently tried upgrading my DJGPP installation to v2, but found a
> couple of problems:
>
> - compiling one largish source (5550 lines, .h included) hangs,
> CTL-ALT-DEL works, the file is one in a set of files
> constituting an application which compiles fine with v1.x
> (it contains one very large switch-statement, if that can be
> of any info)
Please get the DJGPP FAQ list for v2 (v2/faq200b.zip from the same place
you get DJGPP). It explains in section 6.3 that when compiling large
programs, the compiler might run out of its stack space, and explains how
to enlarge that stack space. (It describes that about the C++ compiler,
but if you see these crashes when compiling a C program, apply the same
to cc1.exe.) Please see if the solutions outlined in the FAQ (see also
section 15.8 there) help you to solve the problem.
> - info behaves strange, ^v beeps and the status lines (mini-buf)
> are invisible, after exit the computer hangs
Did you use a non-default screen size? If so, switch your screen to the
standard 25x80 size before running Info and see if it then runs OK. If
it does, tell more about the screen size you try to use Info with and
I'll tell you how to get it to work with a non-standard size.
If the screen size isn't a problem, please make sure you have the latest
Info distribution (it should be dated 22 February or later). The first
distribution was linked with a buggy version of C library which sometimes
would have crashes or weird video effects.
If none of the above helps, maybe there is some memory-resident software
that interferes with Info. Try to invoke Info on a plain-vanilla DOS
system and if it helps, try to see what program conflicts with it.
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