From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT new-orleans DOT NeoSoft DOT com>
Subject: Re: Missing gasxxx.zip
To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 07:54:49 -0600 (CST)
Cc: scott_ankrum AT VNET DOT IBM DOT COM, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> Yes you can compile.  You'll probably find that you need to use the real-mode
> gcc which is in gcc263rm.zip.  The protected-mode gcc seemed to consume some
> resource and crash after multiple compilations.  I don't think this was ever
> fixed, but OS/2 and djgpp have both been upgraded since the last time I tried

I never fixed it, so I think it is still there.  I kept hoping IBM would fix
the bug in their DPMI server (I did send in bug reports, but I think they 
ignore anything from me anymore).  Anyway, the selectors need to be freed in 
nested tasks, that is what would probably fix the problem.  IBM's bug is
they don't re-init the dpmi server to recover these on the outer task exit.