From: "Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: as.exe seg fault: please help
Date: Thu,  2 Aug 2001 10:04:17
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> I am running win2k pro sp2  ...  it says that there is a seg fault in 
> as.exe ...

As you have seen, you are a beta tester on Windows 2000 ...

The as.exe crash is caused by the inability to address wrap on Windows NT
and derivatives (like Windows 2000).  The DJGPP development team is aware
of this and I'm working on a fix for a future release.  If you want to
BINARY PATCH your existing DJGPP images to work better under Windows 2000
(or NT for that matter) grab ftp://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/ntsbrkpat.zip

You can also binary patch NTVDM.EXE to work around the bug there (causes
premature exits in nested programs and NTVDM crashes).