From: invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid (Graaagh the Mighty) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Peculiar behavior of program. Organization: Low Charisma Anonymous Message-ID: <3b3b4948.212143163@news.primus.ca> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Lines: 29 Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 15:14:43 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.176.153.4 X-Complaints-To: news AT primus DOT ca X-Trace: news1.tor.primus.ca 993741345 207.176.153.4 (Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:15:45 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:15:45 EDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 16:12:47 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii sat on a tribble, which squeaked: >No. The DPMI host always gets the first chance to look at any >exceptional condition. That makes it responsible for giving the best data it can in every situation then. >Any number of things. It could simply load some value into SS in >inline assembly. Or call int86x with wrong arguments. Or installe a >real-mode callback with wrong parameters. My code does nothing of the sort as written. If it does as generated, then gcc's optimizer has a severe bug. >I knew you won't want to understand. I could care less either way. All I want is the damned traceback, or other useful debugging information. All I want is that if I compile and run protected-mode code, it might produce bogus output, and it might even bomb with an application fault, but it won't reboot the machine, hang the OS, or do anything else outside of its PM sandbox. Is that really too much to ask? Sheesh. -- Bill Gates: "No computer will ever need more than 640K of RAM." -- 1980 "There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of." -- 1980 "This antitrust thing will blow over." -- 1998 Combine neo, an underscore, and one thousand sixty-one to make my hotmail addy.