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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 93 09:13:48 -0400
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: davidsor AT qed DOT econ DOT queensu DOT ca
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Version 1.10 of djgpp

> I'm having two silly problems with djgpp version 1.10. The first is that the
> initialisation module crt0.o that comes with it (date 05-31-93) calls a routine
> called _setstack (__setstack in the corresponding crt0.s file) that the linker
> cannot subsequently find. I found setstack.s in \libsrc\c\sys, assembled it,
> and added it to libc.a. Was that the proper thing to do, or did I make a
> mistake at some earlier stage?

This is a new one on me.  Are you sure you don't have a 1.09 libc.a?

> The next problem has to do with the sample code in \samples\grtask. No matter
> whether I use the old executable generated by the version 1.09 compiler or a
> new one from the version 1.10 compiler, it does not work correctly with the new
> go32, although it does with the version 1.09 go32. I have the driver
> environment variable correctly set. In fact, I have tried this on two or three
> different machines, with different super VGA cards needing different drivers,
> but the problem always appears in the same form. What happens is that the video
> does not go into graphics mode. The color changing takes place all right, but
> it simply affects the text that happened to be on the screen before I ran the
> program. Has anyone encountered this problem? More important, is there a fix? I
> don't really want to have to use the old go32 with any graphics program I
> compile!

This is a known bug.  Use the go32.exe in djgpp/pub/csdpmit1.zip


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