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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 19:23:39 +0200
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Anton Helm <tony AT nt DOT tuwien DOT ac DOT at>
Subject: Re: djgpp and WinNT 4.0 summary of problems
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 19:29 22.07.98 +0300, you wrote:
>
>> I've been using djgpp v2.01 with WinNT 4.0 for a while
>> and found some mysterious problems.
>
>Please tell what are the build and the type (workstation or server) of 
>this machine.

Sorry for being not precise enough.
WinNT Workstation v4.0, build 1381, service pack 3, US-english

>This means that somebody called the `abort' library function (it is it 
>which prints "Abort!" in v2.01).  Please set a breakpoint in `abort' and 
>see if you can get a traceback from the debugger.  I'm curious to know 
>how the heck did `abort' get called.

I'll debug into that as soon as possible. If I can't manage it this week
it has to wait some weeks. Are there other standard C library functions
calling abort() in case of an error/exception?


>>    gdb exits to DOS prompt (NOT to NC) and the working directory changes
>>    to the one before invoking NC.
>
>This means that NC is aborted as well.  I don't know why.
Even more, the NC screen is restored on the DOS window but the prompt
now belongs to dos and no longer to NC (e.g. NC screen is scrolling out 
of the window when pressing <Enter>).


Tony



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