Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 10:56:28 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Re: gcc-crash - and a possible solution
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> In my humble opinion, it would be easiest to reproduce and track down
> the error, if we modify gcc-2.95 to catch any DPMI-errors and such.

I find it hard to believe that a DPMI server problem can cause these
crashes.  Note that the crash is inside `free', not inside `malloc' or
any other code that uses `malloc'ed buffer.  If the problem lies with
the allocation of memory, then either `malloc' should have crashed, or
some code that uses the allocated buffer.

No, this problem seems to be with how allocated memory is used by the
program.  It might be triggered by some special (mis)-behavior of the
Windows 3.X DPMI server, but I don't think it is directly connected
with it.