Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/06/21/07:20:40
On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Graaagh the Mighty wrote:
> On 19 Jun 2001 14:48:49 GMT, Hans-Bernhard Broeker
> <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> sat on a tribble, which squeaked:
>
> >> I won't have a problem once I can get a decent traceback. Why is it
> >> not generating the "call frame traceback EIPs"? And why does it crash
> >> Windows? A protected mode task should be utterly unable to bring the
> >> OS down,
> >
> >"Should": yes. But reality shows that "should" rules are far too
> >seldomly paid any respect. And 9x is a rather prominent example of
> >that, regrettably.
>
> Yeah, but I don't get a decent traceback under cwsdpmi, either, so you
> can't blame *this* one on Bill Gates...
No, I blame it on you: it's your bug that caused a GPF inside CWSDPMI.
It is obvious that CWSDPMI cannot possibly print the traceback of your
program, since it's a different program.
(When Hans-Bernhard talked about Windows, he meant your second question,
not your first one.)
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