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Date:	Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:21:11 +0100
From:	Mateusz Viste <mateusz DOT viste AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject:	Watt32 crashing on i386
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Hi there,

I have some troubles using watt32 with DJGPP. I have two applications 
that work fine on a pentium-grade machine, but both crash on a i386 when 
the Watt32 lib is called.

At first I though that it is because I was using a Watt32 lib compiled 
for Pentium (the Watt32 identification string was saying '(Pent)'), so 
then I added -march=i386 when compiling Watt32, unfortunately the 
applications are still crashing (with a SIGSEGV, General Protection 
Fault to be exact).

The ident. string of the Watt32 build I am using now is this:

Watt-32 (2.2.10), GNU-C 4.7.1 (386), djgpp 2.03, Dec  9 2013

Am I alone with that problem? Or maybe - by any chance - anyone already 
noticed this and would be kind enough to point me in the right direction? :)

Or - have anyone already seen Watt32 working on a 386-class PC?

I should add that I don't have an i386 machine myself to test - the 
crashes have been reported to me by a user of my program, so I can't 
even reproduce the problem at will... This same user says that "wget, 
which relies on watTCP works perfectly fine on that machine" - so my 
next step will be to try to use WatTCP instead of Watt32, and see if it 
changes anything... but I am totally in the dark here.

cheers,
Mateusz

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