From: David Maddock <dmaddock AT xtra DOT co DOT nz>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GPF's without traceback
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 17:50:48 -0700
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You also don't get a traceback if the executable was compressed with the
DJP excecutable packer.

Kester Maddock
dmaddock AT xtra DOT co DOT nz

Andrew Szymkowiak wrote:
> 
>    A program of mine, which runs for weeks at a time, on three
> occasions has died with a General Protection Fault.  On all of
> these occasions, the EIP has pointed into _DJGPP_exception_table,
> and there has been no EIP traceback to symify.  The register
> dump ends after an item like "error=000c", with a different
> value each time.
>    Now I do not expect anyone to tell me what was wrong from such
> meagre information, but I am curious about:
> 
> (1) Under what circumstances does one not get a traceback?
> and
> (2) What do the various values of "error=" indicate?
> 
> Thanks,
>   Andy S.
> (an e-mail copy of any posted reply appreciated)
> aes AT lheamail DOT gsfc DOT nasa DOT gov