To: John Lazenby <john AT sqi DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: GCC crashes in XMS mode 
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 95 18:43:15 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

> Sorry, I just got 1.12m3 and only resubscribed to this (high volume)
> mailing list when gcc kept hanging.  What is the best way to 
> get gcc to not hang?  Will "emm386 ram" work?

Yes.  Either EMM386 RAM or QEMM386 RAM (if you have QEMM) or any
other environment where there are either VCPI or DPMI services
available (e.g., Win 3.x DOS box is also OK).  It seems gcc
crashes only in raw mode (i.e., ``plain vanilla DOS'') or with
HIMEM.SYS installed.  Any other environment is OK.  If you run
go32 without arguments and it says ``VCPI memory'' or ``DPMI
memory'', gcc won't hang; if it says ``raw extended memory'' or
``XMS memory'', it *will* hang/reboot your machine.