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Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 08:40:04 +0200
From: "Dr. Andras Sólyom" <solyom AT eik DOT bme DOT hu>
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To: djgpp <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: CWSDPMI problem with Allegro Was:Problems with Allegro (followup)
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 14 May 1997, Dr. Andras Sólyom wrote:
> If your conclusion is that CWSDPMI is responsible for the crashes, I would
> suggest to look into this a bit more.  CWSDPMI is much less tolerant to
> certain violations of DPMI rules than most other DPMI hosts, so it
> sometimes aborts your program when other hosts let it get away.  

It does not simply aborts my program, but it hangs the machine
completetly. Furthermore if my memory serves right the cr2 register can
only be set/modified by a ring 0 instruction, and I think that my
program will not run in ring 0.
Am I right?
> 
> If you do think that CWSDPMI has a bug, I suggest to write to Charles
> Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> and tell him about the problem (please
That's a valuable suggestion I should have thought it myself... Thanks

					Andras