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Nish wrote 
>The djgpp website says that djgpp images may not work properly under
>Win 2K/XP and that the cure is to use binaries dated after December
>2001. Does this mean (1) the djgpp compiler itself may not work or (2)
>the code that it produces may not work? I have the second type of
>problem. A client is reporting that code compiled with djgpp works on
>some XP machines but not on others. The error is
>

Answers:
1 Yes, due to bugs in DPMI implementation gcc may fail under Windows NT/W2K/XP/ME/98/you name it .... This is NOT gcc bug but rather Windows' sloppy understanding of DPMI
2 Yes, due to bugs in DPMI implementation a program that uses DPMI (including these ones built by djgpp tools) may fail under Windows NT/W2K/XP/ME/98/you name it .... This is NOT djgpp bug but rather Windows' sloppy understanding of DPMI

A workaround is to use djgpp tools and libc specially crafted to work around Windows' bugs. For a start please see the link provided by Andris in another message. As far as I can recall Microsoft has been more or less informed of problems with DPMI handling in NTVDM and did nothing to fix this. 'Dont use DOS anymore, use .NET' is all I heard from them.

So I bought an Apple computer ....

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