Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 12:19:05 +0900
From: Stephen Turnbull <turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp>
To: berend AT beard DOT nest DOT nl
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: djgpp 1.12/m4 hangs DV/X 2.0

   Hello All,

   Everytime I use gcc under DV/X it completely locks up DV/X 2.0. I've
   installed the latest maintenance release up to 1.12m4, but no cure. I
   had no problems on exactly the same system with 1.11 up to m5.

On my AMI 486/50DX with AMI caching SCSI controller, I have had no
problems with GO32 1.12 or the maint1 and maint2 patches.  I don't
have maint3 or maint4 installed there, and GCC is 2.6.0 I think.  (I
do have problems with recursive makefiles running out of space for
GO32, but that at worst locks the window, not DV/X.)  I used to
regularly build Ghostscript in that environment, so big programs could
be built.

On my IBM StinkPad 330cs (486/50SL2), I have problems under DOS;
eventually the hard disk locks up and asks me to shut its door (!)  I
suspect it's cache-related, but I've never been able to induce the
problem with less than about 70 compilations, and doing 70
compilations without a cache on that system would just take too long.
That's a lot longer than your "few seconds," anyway.  I would tend to
suspect the cache, though.  I believe that problems with Hyperdisk
have been reported on comp.os.msdos.desqview, but I haven't been
reading that in a while.

   The problem manifests itself for example when I recompile gcc itself.
   Most of the time I only have about a few seconds...

   Is this a known bug? Does anyone else experience it? Any suggestions?

   Some other info:
   - I use DV/X 2.0, Qemm 7.04, Dos5.0
   - I use HyperDisk 4.7 as disk-cache
   - It's 1 486/33DX with 20MB RAM

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