Mail Archives: djgpp/1992/11/08/15:24:59
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> Could anyone please tell me what exception is all about?
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> While I am compiling my program (source code over 1meg) I get a message
> exception 6 at eip=xxxxx where xxxxx is some address.
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> Regards,
> Eric
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Exception 6 is invalid op code.
I had this same problem when compiling a large file (600k+). When run under
debug32, I discovered the compile proper required 16M to do all the necessary
computations. I can imagine how much memory you are going to need to do a
1M file :-> (aside: what is the memory complexity of compilation, or is it
NP?)
As slight possibility is that memory gets corrupted swapping back and forth,
and something gets munged (though I would think this unlikely in that go32
always reads code back in from the a.out file, right?)
unless, when swapping a page table, the pt gets munged and decides to point
into data somewhere :->
Anyway, what I had to do to get around this was strip _EVERYTHING_ out of
memory to give go32 all I could. To compile the one file took 45 minutes.
I used debug32 instead of go32, but I'm not sure if this solved the problem
(I wouldn't think it would make a difference), but it's neat to watch the
little number across the top... gives you something to do while you harddrive
thrashes. :->
actually, under debug32, i would get a page fault often (exception 14).
I don't know how to go about trying to find the problem. It took me 3 attempts
to get it to compile (same circumstances each time, that's why I think it may
be a memory-disk-memory thing as it managed to work at least once).
You might try breaking the source up into smaller files, if possible. I
couldn't because most of the source was a huge array for a state-machine
which was pretty much hard coded. It also wasn't my code and I didn't want
to mess around with it.
I haven't tried compiling the file with 1.09 (too scared to :-), so I don't
know if the problems still there.
Well, about all I have to say on the subject. Try striping everything out
of memory and trying it a few time... you might get lucky :->
regards,
mrc
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