From: Sengan DOT Short AT durham DOT ac DOT uk
Message-Id: <9705.9604161849@bylands.dur.ac.uk>
Subject: machine hanging
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 19:49:31 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

I seem to have a problem with my machine hanging while compiling C or C++,
usually from a Makefile, but occuring randomly. This seems to occur after
around 7 small c++ files, or 3 big C files have been compiled, during the
compilation (cc.exe). This is not due to any old version of make lying around
since my v1 gcc is zipped away.

I am using CWSDPMI, DOS, and DBLSPACE. When compiling I also use SMARTDRV.
My machine is a 4Mb, 25Mhz 486 SLC TI notebook. When the computer hangs, the
keyboard is completely locked which means I have to turn the computer off and
on again.

I have done some experiments, and I believe that the problem lies with CWSDPMI.
If I turn my computer on and press F5 (to avoid loading config.sys or
autoexec.bat), I do not load HIMEM. In this setup, running go32-v2 hangs the
machine (or anything else using cwsdpmi). To run these, I go into the djgpp/bin
directory. Similarly, running cwsdpmi, then cwsdpmi -u hangs it. After turning
the machine off and back on I get an empty c:\cwsdpmi.swp file. My version of
dblspace is french from msdos 6.0, and msdos itself is 6.22 american. I've also
tried to turn off virtual memory with "cwsdpmi -s- -p", which does not crash,
but when I try "info" afterwards, info hangs.

Any ideas ?

Ta,

Sengan