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Date:	Thu, 10 Dec 1998 10:31:05 +0200 (WET)
From:	Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com,
	Leonid Pauzner <leonid AT pauzner DOT mccme DOT ru>,
	"K.B. Williams" <Kbwms AT aol DOT com>
Subject:	Re: DJGPP 2.02 fails immediately on FPU-less machine !
In-Reply-To:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.981210084826.490A-100000@is>
Message-ID:	<Pine.A41.4.05.9812101024140.42556-100000@ieva01.lanet.lv>
MIME-Version:	1.0
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, Leonid Pauzner wrote:
> 
> > Exiting due to signal SIGNOFP
> > Coprocessor not available at eip=00003c67
> > eax=00029cd0 ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00029cd8 esi=00000000 edi=00000001
> > ebp=00073918 esp=000738d4 program=C:\DJGPP\BIN/make.exe
> 
> DJ, this is due to reversed order of bytes in emu387.dxe.  I didn't check 
> all of the emulator, but at least the header, including the magic 
> signature "DXE1", is byte-reversed.  This, of course, causes _dxe_load to 
> fail, and the net effect is that the emulator is not installed.
> 
> I didn't dig deeper (it was after midnight ;-), and I probably can't 
> debug this on a PC anyway, but my first guess would be that the 
> byte-reversing function in dxegen.c somehow doesn't work (maybe the 
> wiseguy otherwise known as GCC 2.8.1 optimized it way too much?).
> 
> And here's a *really* long shot: could it be that the strange error 
> message from ld.exe while linking emu387.dxe on a PC, reported by 
> K.B. Williams a couple of days ago, is also connected to this somehow?
> 

Tried to build djlsr202 with egcs-1.1.1 cross-compiler under
Linux (I only had to patch coff.h to workaround well known Linux problem
with _POSIX_SOURCE). I got right signature of emu387.dxe (DXE1) not
reversed as in distributed binary archive. 

Andris  

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