Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 16:27:15 +0100 (BST)
From: George Foot <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Windows NT
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On Tue, 27 May 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> On 26 May 1997, George Foot wrote:
> 
> > This brings up a problem I have had for a very long time; the machines I
> > have to use to access the internet (like now) do not have DJGPP on them.
> > To compile programs I have been using DJ's web based compiler. However,
> > attempting to run programs frequently fails. One of four things happens:
> > either the program runs fine, or it gives the standard traceback
> > information, or it makes Windows 95 barf and close the DOS box, or (most
> > strange of all) it does nothing - no error, no output, nothing.
> 
> Does this ever happen with programs that you compile on your
> development system and bring to that Windows 95 box, or is it only
> true for what you get from DJ's server?

I'll try that tonight, when I go back to my own computer.

> > The connection to what Paul's saying is that I know the program is correct
> > (it's the simple "Hello, World!\n" example that's in the compiler
> > initially, with the #include corrected), yet I still sometimes get the
> > regular DJGPP-style traceback.
> 
> Please post such a traceback.  This has never happen to me with
> programs that I bring to Windows 95 machines to test LFN-related
> issues.

C:\gf>program
Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV
Page fault at eip=00002ea4, error=0004
eax=0000000c ebx=00000001 ecx=fffffffc edx=e8136aff esi=00000008
edi=0000b6c0
ebp=0004b67c esp=0004b674 cs=00a7 ds=00af es=00af fs=0087 gs=00cf ss=00af
Call frame traceback EIPs:
  0x00002ea4
  0x000055d6
  0x00002954
  0x00001a50

There is no way of symifying this, partly because this system doesn't have
symify (although I could get it) and partly because DJ's compiler doesn't
include symbol information. I'll try this program on my system and vice
versa later on.

-- 
George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford

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