Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 17:16:01 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Patrick R. White" <patwhite AT interaccess DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP - General Protection Exceptions
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On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Patrick R. White wrote:

> MS DOS Prompt
> This program has performed an illegal operation and will be terminated.
> Quit all programs, and then restart your computer.
> 
> The program encountered a general protection exception.
> 
> Fault location:		0297:0044
> 
> Interrupts in service:	1
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> One time gcc -v works and then it crashes trying to compile a small C
> program like above.  Somtimes it crashes on the -v line without reading
> the environment file while other times it seems to read it and stop
> after printing out 'gcc version 2.8.1' or not, it isn't even consistent.

Please describe the situation more accurately.  Does GCC *always*
crash for this specific source file convert.c?  If it sometimes does
manage to compile convert.c, please post the output of gcc -v during
that successful compilation.  Also, please post the contents of
convert.c.

> If I reboot only to DOS, I can compile it
> but I can't run it because I don't have access to the Cwsdpmi.exe
> program.

This suggests a problem with long file names.  Set LFN=y in the
environment and try compiling then.  Also, make sure you have the
latest uploads of gcc281b.zip.

Btw, cwsdpmi.exe is available in v2,isc/csdpmi4b.zip from the same
place you get DJGPP.