Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/07/09/03:53:04
On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Peter Vertes wrote:
> I just got DJGPP and emacs and I'm trying to get them to run under
> OpenDOS, but OpenDOS just doesn't want to cooperate. It keeps on
> crashing. It sais that EMM386 has found an illegal opcode, shows me the
> contents of all my registers and wants me to reboot.
It seems that EMM386 from OpenDOS has problems, at least as far as 32-bit
protected mode is concerned. I've heard such reports from users that
told me their problems went away once they booted native MS-DOS. In one
of the recent reports, a user tried to compile GCC, but Make was crashing
half-way through the build process because apparently EMM386 was leaking
memory (the free RAM consistently went down); after the crash, only a
reboot would make the system stable again.
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