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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 15:47:11 +0000
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Subject: Re: [RHIDE] Weird noises during compile!

Hi Paul:

> 
> Using RHIDE 1.1b, I have been working on a large project (~5000 lines of
> source and growing). The project involves Allegro.
Not so huge only the editor class of RHIDE is over than 10000 lines ;-)

> On one single occasion, I did a bit of editing/debugging and then hit
> compile/make, and it began to compile...it said it was running gcc, then a
> moment later my sound blaster started making all sorts of "braaap!" noises
> at the top of its lungs!
> I panicked a bit, and hit a dozen ^C, causing the compile to abort, and
> then exited RHIDE; the noises continued. Then I ran the sound card's test
> software, and that eliminated the noise but caused my computer to hang. I
> gave it the three-finger salute, went back to RHIDE and my project, and
> did the Make command again. It worked normally that time.

Well from my point of view was a fail in your hard, because:
1) That happend when GCC was running not RHIDE as you said.
2) GCC won't mess with the hardware DMA (I'm 90% sure that you got a DMA 
transfer, that was the noise) or the 0x388 port (the SB syntethizer).

Or ...
Are you sure that your program didn't make any thing with allegro to the SB 
that you didn't saw in the first moment, but later when compiling?
Perhaps you was debuging and stoped the program with ALT-F2?

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