Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/12/08/22:04:06
Hmmm. It crashes a 4dos session immediately on being run. It will run
forever in a dos box until you try to do something with another window.
This is on NT 4.0. As long as I leave the dos box as the focus, and don't
do anything else, it runs fine.
Just thought you'd appreciate more info,
Brian
At 07:24 PM 12/8/97 -0700, Joshua James Turpen wrote:
>Ok, after being pointed out that my code doesn't lock the touched code and
>variables, here is a completely bulletproof program (as far as I can
>tell) that crashes under Win95 DPMI. It may take a while, but it does
>crash. I've had it crash anywhere from 1 minute to 15 minutes after
>starting it.
>
>I would post a symified traceback, except it doesn't get there. Windows
>intercepts the crash with the "This program has violated...." message and
>gives a pointer to 0028:c0002840, which is inside the VMM function
>Build_Int_Stack_Frame.
>
>
>This is a very scary bug. If it does turn out to be a bug in Win95 DPMI,
>it's really going to hurt DJGPP, since the ___djgpp_hw_exception trick is
>the basis of signals under DJGPP.
>
>
>Josh Turpen
>44699 AT ef DOT gc DOT maricopa DOT edu
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