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From: jesper AT chaos DOT fys DOT dtu DOT dk (Jesper Skovhus Thomsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Problems with cc1.exe (djgpp v 2.0)
Date: 15 Feb 1996 07:28:57 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, DTU, Denmark
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Charles Sandmann (sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu) wrote:
> > I have developed the program at work on a P90 with 16 Mb RAM using
> > djgpp v1.12m4 -- where no problems can be observed.

> Two differences here - one is the GCC version 2.6.3 vs 2.7.2; the other
> is that under DOS you had infinite stack in V1.x if you weren't using
> DPMI.

> > General Protection Fault at eip=eb9fd; flags=3017
> > eax=00000000 ebx=000000ff ecx=00000000 edx=00000002 esi=00000000 edi=000000ef
> > ebp=000ecfe4 esp=00003390 cs=e7 ds=ef es=ef fs=cf gs=ff ss=33 error=bbb8

> This message comes from CWSDPMI instead of DJGPP (they look much alike), and
> the only time you should see this is if you get nasty nested exceptions.
> This would probably mean the internal exception handling structures are
> scrogged - and the error code indicates a bogus selector was trying to be
> loaded.  The EIP and EBP are a bit too close for comfort.  I'll guess
> we have a stack overflow.  Try stubediting cc1.exe to have 512K stack
> and see if that helps (?)

Yes it did help -- now it works !

Thank you very much !!!!

BTW It might be a good idea to mention in the ReadMe/FAQ that a GPF during 
compilation can be avoided via enlargement of the stack of the compiler.  


Jesper