Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 00:06:06 +0300
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Subject: Re: problem with malloc and free
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> From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 15:09:24 GMT
> > 
> > C:\Programme\djgpp\projects>a
>      ^^^^^^^^^
> > Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV
> > General Protection Fault at eip=00003180
> > eax=00000000 ebx=000084f9 ecx=00000000 edx=76202000 esi=00000054 edi=000656c4
> > ebp=000e5668 esp=000e5630 program=C:\PROGRA~1\DJGPP\PROJECTS\A.EXE
>                                        ^^^^^^^^
> What is this?  Indication of some filename setup mixup, or
> installation under the ridiculous Windoze "\Program files\"
> directory, etc.

When a DOS program is invoked on Windows, Windows replaces the long
name of every directory in its path with the short 8+3 alias, and
that's what the program gets in its argv[0].  The DJGPP crash message
uses argv[0] to print the program's name, thus the horribly ugly file
name above.  (We could convert that to the original long name, but the
code to do that is non-trivial, and thus it was deemed unwise to run
it when the program has crashed and its core data structures might be
corrupted.)