From:	"Michael Allison" <michael DOT allison2 AT sympatico DOT ca>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Eradicating djgpp W2000 problem
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Date:	Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:32:12 GMT
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Let's constructively try to come up with the absolute minimum set
of two programs that can cause the problem to occur, as a start
to understanding it.

Debugging it using GNU Make is too daunting, so if we build a
set of minimal C problems to force it to happen, we might get
someplace.

To start with:

- It only happens when you nest djgpp programs. That implies
  that we need an outer program, that calls another, which
  calls another.  Will that get us the required number of
  nesting levels?

- What type of calls are used to load and execute the nested
  programs (what does GNU-Make use for instance).  We'll
  add those to the contrived programs, to accomplish the
  nesting.

Anything else to get us started?

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