From:	mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: LD hangs!!!!
Date:	3 Mar 1997 10:01:41 GMT
Organization:	Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:
: 
: On 28 Feb 1997, I (Michel de Ruiter) wrote:
: 
: > Why is my D:(drive-1) waken up so rudimentary(sp?)?
: > Why does LD access D: when it doesn't have to?
: 
: You will have to investigate some more if you are really annoyed by
: this.  If you can see which DOS calls are made that reference drive
: D:, this would help understand which part of `ld' makes these calls.
: `ld' is built from a few very large libraries, and it is very hard to
: guess where exactly is drive D: referenced without some hints.

Well, not annoyed, just curious. I'll try to intercept the DOS-calls and
investigate the 'problem' some more.

: Btw, does this happen with `ld' only, or with other DJGPP programs as
: well?

As far as I know, it only happens with `ld'. I don't use _every_ DJGPP
program regularly, but I am quite sure `ld' is the only one. That's one
of the strange things about it.
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