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From: Hartmut Schirmer <hsc AT techfak DOT uni-kiel DOT d400 DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: BCC2GRX: problem with default font.
Date: 19 Feb 1996 07:19:43 GMT
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wkim+@pitt.edu  (Wonkoo Kim) wrote:
>I got djgpp v2.0 distribution together with grxlib and bcc2grx.  This 
>new version of BCC2GRX seems to have a problem with DEFAULT_FONT.

The GRX20 distributed by DJ is still the Aug 95 release. BCC2GRX uses linkable
bitmap fonts available in later versions of GRX.

>Another problem was that bccbgi.exe crashed in middle of execution
>It is reproducible, always at the 4th demo screen, which is a square-
>shaped spiral being filled the blue color from the center of the screen. 
>It gave access violation at near the end of the blue-color filling.  
>I'm running it in OS/2 Warp full-screen DOS box.
>I haven't any problem with v2.0 beta.

Your bccbgi.exe has a 256k stack with DKGPP v2 instead of the virtual unlimited
stack in v1. floodfill() did really deep recursions and you got a stack fault.

Get an updated BCC2GRX from

  http://www.techfak.uni-kiel.de/~hsc/BCC2GRX/

Hartmut
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