Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 15:16:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Sean Wall, x3736" <WALL AT bng DOT ge DOT com>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Error handling question

Hi everyone,

        I've got what I think is a simple question.  While debugging a
program, I've noticed that segmentation faults are trapped well when
'nodpmi' is in the GO32 environment variable, but causes the machine
to lock up when GO32 is running with 'nodpmi' absent.

        As I understand it, if 'nodpmi' is specified, GO32 will provide
the basic functions which DPMI should give.  I suspect that's why error
handling is a little more stable, since GO32 is handling it as opposed
to my DPMI service (386MAX -- I don't run under a DOS session in Windows)

        Does this sound reasonable?  Or am I way off track?  I really
don't know for sure, so this is guesswork.  Thanks!


-Sean

(wall AT bng DOT ge DOT com)

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