Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 08:22:21 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Luke Anthony Hutchinson <lhutchin AT ug DOT cs DOT su DOT oz DOT au>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: MASM v6.11 COFF files & DJGPP
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On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Luke Anthony Hutchinson wrote:

> variable you want.  This problem seems to be with DJGPP not MASM, since
> the disassembled COFF file addresses the variables correctly.  After a
> lot of headaches in finding and working around this problem, I still
> have trouble with the final executable, it is _extremely_ unstable, eg:
> FSDB has a GPF when trying to load a.out, unless I comment out the line
> XOR EAX,EAX in my code.

Did you look at the alignment of the code and data?  There are (were?)
some inconsistencies in the alignment between Gcc and Gas, and I'm not
sure they have been resolved.  DJ, do I make any sense at all on this 
one?