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Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 14:00:45 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
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To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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Subject: Perl-5.61 (last update of DJGPP port) crashes 
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Saw in SETEDIT changelog (in current CVS) note:

Revision 1.530  2002/01/02 00:02:09  set
* Modified: At least in my Win98 SE box some calls to internac/fix.pl just
reboots my system. I guess that's just some memory corruption on the Perl
interpreter triggered by one of the regular expressions. I changed it by a
small C program.

Yesterday (January 4) tried to build current CVS version of RHIDE
	current CVS of SetEdit (at that time)
	TVision-1.13 (with updated compatlayer.h)
	GDB-5.1

and saw similar problems. 

Initially I had not the latest update of PERL and it failed due to 
a different reason (failed to find POSIX.pm). Upgraded perl
to the latest update and got similar behaviour (Windows 98SE
gave message box that program has performed and illegal operation).

Tried in a different DOS box (different shortcut, I set option to protect
DOS memory there) and didn't saw this problem any more. I guess that 
the reason was different ammount of available DPMI memory:

	in the first case it was set to Auto (on box with 512Mb of RAM)
	in the second case it was set to 32Mb (don't ask why, I don't
		remember, I found that only later)

Anyway even after that the RHIDE binaries I got were severaly broken.
I didn't have time to debug that yet

Andris