To: Jack DOT Duke AT eng DOT sun DOT com (Jack Duke)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Trouble installing DJGPP 
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 95 08:45:39 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

> Objective-C and Bison but I don't want either one just yet (what's Bison 
> anyhow?).

Bison is the GNU parser generator, a YACC work-alike.

>   However, it then tries to compile the hello program and either hangs 
> or re-boots the machine! I tried doing the compile using the tryit program and

These are the symptoms of working either under HIMEM.SYS or no
memory manager at all.  It seems there is currently a bug in
one of the library routines called by GCC.EXE which causes this.
If your CONFIG.SYS includes HIMEM.SYS or doesn't include any
memory manager, install the EMM386 memory manager, and the
problem should go away.  Add this at the beginning of your
CONFIG.SYS:

	DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.SYS RAM

If you have HIMEM.SYS on your CONFIG.SYS, add the above AFTER the
line with HIMEM.SYS.  I think you can also toss HIMEM altogether
and leave EMM386 alone, but I'm not sure.