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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 10:54:38 -0500
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From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: Program Exit Code 255
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At 11:15 AM 2/13/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Then is there a way I can tell what the default error exit code 255 is?  Or
>is there someplace where I can find a list of errors?

From a DJGPP app, errorlevel 255 usually signals a crash, such as a segfault.

There's no standard on errorlevels other than that 0 means a normal
successful exit and non-zero reports some kind of error. Beyond that it's
up to individual apps to document the non-zero error codes they return and
what these mean.
DJGPP's load stub and default signal handlers will produce some error codes:

102 -- Stub couldn't find an executable image
103 -- Tried to run as a .COM file
104 -- Executable image is bad/wrong format/corrupt
105 -- Ran out of DOS (640K) mem on startup. (Stub needs this,
       protected mode program itself does not.)
106 -- Couldn't get to protected mode. (286???)
107 -- No DPMI selectors available.
108 -- No DPMI memory available.
109 -- DOS version 1 or 2. DJGPP apps need version 3 or later.
110 -- No DPMI at all. (No Windows/QEMM, no CWSDPMI to fall back on.)
255 -- Caught a fatal signal, such as SIGSEGV.

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