From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP vs Borland C++
Date: 27 Jan 1997 10:46:47 GMT
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Linley Henzell (zel AT olis DOT net DOT au) wrote:
: Well, I'm having some problems with a C program written with Borland C++
: 3.1 which refuses to work with DJGPP v2. It compiles fine, but every
: time I run it, it aborts with a SIGSEGV GPF. I have no idea why this
: happens, because it seems to choose a completely arbitrary point at
: which to abort (I checked with Symify), and my program contains nothing
: which I can imagine being objectionable (like pointers or dynamic memory
: allocation).
: Meanwhile, a little test program works okay with DJGPP.
: 
: Borland's compiler has no problems whatsoever with it, and I've rarely
: had any problems with BC++. If anybody knows about something which
: Borland C++ 3.1 copes with, but which DJGPP just doesn't like, I would
: really appreciate them letting me know so that I can remove it from my
: program! Any assistance in this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Assure you compile with -Wall (and -W) and you have the newest DJGPP-
version 2.01. Several bugs have been fixed since the first v2.
I personally have experienced problems like these, also with gcc on UNIX.
Somewhere I did 'var = 0;' and the program crashed... But it was because
of an error I made and I didn't notice the warnings about it.

Maybe you could post some code? I bet someone will be able to help you.

I am sure every compiler has its bugs, but I have found gcc and DJGPP to be
very stable.
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