Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/10/30/14:10:23
Ali Siddiqui wrote:
> lecturer(he teaches C programming in my Electronics course) tells me
> that djgpp can seriously affect the health of you're computer and it is
He is confused.
> has many a bug within it. Is this true? furthermore, my DOS computer
Any complex program has many bugs. DJGPP has fewer than average
for a C compiler, and enough people are using it successfully on
Win95 that any really serious ones would be reported and fixed by
now.
> does seem to have alotta bugs init especially when running
> Win95(extremely frequent crashes, frequency lowered when keyboard
> instead of mouse used)
Years ago, I upgraded several Win 3.1 machines to Win95 and
they all did that. They all had 3-button serial mice using
the Mouse Systems protocol. The mice had switches marked
either "2" or "MS" for Microsoft protocol and either "3"
or "PC" for Mouse Systems protocol. I switched them all to
Microsoft protocol and those crashes stopped happening (Win95
still crashes a lot for other reasons). I concluded that
there must be a serious bug in the driver for Mouse Systems
Protocol that is included in the "update" version of the
Win 95 CD-ROM.
> Up till now I thought of these bugs as part of
> Win95
Good guess!
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