Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 13:23:00 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Dim Zegebart <zager AT post DOT comstar DOT ru>
cc: DJGPP Mail List <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Allegro 2.2 make problem ;-)
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On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Dim Zegebart wrote:

> get the error msg such as 
> pc.h : undefined '_' (firts use this function)
> or somthing about it. Then I open pc.h and go to the error line I see
> not __asm__ but
> _0x7fasm (I mean insted of second underscore I have character with ascii
> 0x7f). I manualy change
> this error and run make again. But after compiling some files the same
> errors occures again.

Spooky...  One thing I can think of is that you have a disk cache
installed and it either has bugs or gets corrupted by some other factor (a
runaway program? a faulty memory chip in your RAM?).  So I'd suggest to
uninstall the disk cache, or replace it by another one, and see if that
helps. 

Another possibility is a virus.

Are these problems bugging you for a long time, or did they start only 
recently?  If the latter, try to recall everything that has changed on 
your machine and see if any of them might explain the problems.

> Note !!! If I don't edit pc.h in this case just run make again the error
> may gone away or may not (ghosts)
> I mean pc.h remain unchanged !!! More other, I may run make 3 times with
> errors but then I run it again at 4 time
> all goes fine !!!

This is consistent with the disk cache theory.  As long as the 
(corrupted) image of the file is in the cache, you will see the 
corruption, but when the cache overflows, it will reload the file from 
disk, where it is unchanged.  Thereafter it will work until the image in 
cache is once again corrupted.