Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 12:03:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker To: DJGPP list Subject: Re: [help wanted] GCC hangs on my cyrix system. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk [I would have answered privately, but no valid EMail address is available] In article <3574df43 DOT 0 AT 206 DOT 103 DOT 97 DOT 91> you wrote: > this is my first try with djgpp, and then first time i tried to compile an > example c file "hello.c" with a command "gcc hello.c -o hello.exe" under > win95-osr2 us version with dos box, it did nothing but blinking a cursor. i > waited about 5minutes; however it did nothing... This sounds vaguely familiar. Looks like, in the past few weeks, several newbies got bitten by similar problems: newly downloaded gcc hanging in the air doing nothing. But then, at least some of them claim that the same happens to them on plain DOS as well, not just in a Win95 DOS box. > i tried to run gcc under > pure ms-dos mode by shutting down the system to restart on ms-dos mode....it > showed some funny thing saying page fault error(i am not sure what was the > message exactly) with lots of hex values To you, those hex values may be just 'some funny thing'. To us, they would have been absolutely vital information about possible causes of your problem. So please: try that again, and mail us everything that an invocation like gcc -v -o hello.exe hello.c prints. Esp. those hex numbers are absolutely necessary. And be sure to check for a possible virus infection of your system. > ....it seems to me that gcc doesn't > like my cyrix cpu(6x86 pr200+) which is known for some incompatiblities with > intel counter part...... DJGPP doesn't pull any tricks that would work on Intel hardware only, I think. Its code is designed to run unchanged on every platform since the 386, and it has never failed us yet in this respect. [And next time, Gil-Dong, you really should provide some valid Reply address...] Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.