From: "Floorguy" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Eradicating djgpp W2000 problem Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:15:59 -0600 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <10102261811 DOT AA12134 AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse AT supernews DOT com Lines: 31 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I am not what you would call a professional programmer, I am just now finishing advanced programming in college, using djgpp, (against the advice of my professor, by the way, he is a Borland man), however, I would be willing to help in any way I can. I run a dual boot, win2k, win98 machine, so could test any programs if you think a different machine might be helpful. "Charles Sandmann" wrote in message news:10102261811 DOT AA12134 AT clio DOT rice DOT edu... > > > The crashes occur "randomly" - by that I mean if you run the exact same > > > sequence 10 times it may work 9 times out of 10. > > > > > > I also observed once (I believe... hard to be sure when you only see it once) > > > a crash in GCC alone - only a single nesting. > > > > Thanks. Could you please tell what programs did you invoke? Was that > > GCC from Make, or something else? > > GCC from the command line (CMD.exe) crashed the VDM once if I remember > correctly. Usually I was seeing lots of crashes running make, which then > calls GCC. We tried patching make to not hook interrupts, or to toggle > exceptions - none of which seemed to help. > > I did some playing with trying to "go32 gcc" and "go32 make" to add > additional nesting levels and got interesting results I don't remember > and couldn't explain.