Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:38:01 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Oberhumer Markus <k3040e4 AT c210 DOT edvz DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
Cc: djgpp-workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Transfer buffer usage in `spawnXX'
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On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Oberhumer Markus wrote:

> Please also try this recursive Makefile with the new version:
> 
> # Makefile
> default:
> 	$(MAKE)
> # end of Makefile
> 
> 
> Here is what I get (SIGILL is not very nice):
> 
> [Snip]
> 
> make.exe[13]: Entering directory `e:/t'
> e:/l/djgpp2/bin/make.exe
> Exiting due to signal SIGILL
> Invalid TSS at eip=000001ff, error=0004

That's different in every DPMI server.  The problem is that you are out 
of DOS memory (and you should see a message from the stub to that 
effect).  That is what I see whenever I try such things.  The stub is 
optimized for size, so it doesn't always have robust error recovery.