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Subject:	Re: Watt32 crashing on i386
From:	Juan Manuel Guerrero <juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de>
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Am Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2013 15:21:11 UTC+1 schrieb Mateusz Viste:
> 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:
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> 
> 
> Watt-32 (2.2.10), GNU-C 4.7.1 (386), djgpp 2.03, Dec  9 2013
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> 
> 
> 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 
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> changes anything... but I am totally in the dark here.
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> 
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Mateusz


I do not have a i386 to test the code.  Your 386 version dies with SIGSEGV.
Can you use bfdsymify to identify the code lines where it crashes?
Is the application available that you try to compile?

Regards,
Juan M. Guerrero

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