Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
From: manfred DOT heumann AT uni-bielefeld DOT de (Manni Heumann)
Subject: Windows, my hardware or DJGPP?
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I have a nice and working djgpp installation with egcs for the c++ stuff. But 
once in a while I get strange behavior when compiling. E.g., just yesterday I 
tried to compile something when suddenly ld crashed with a gpf.
At first I thought: I did it! My code must be so bad, it killed the linker.

But it kept crashing, even when I just compiled "hello world".

So I rebooted and everything was OK again, ld gave me a nice executable.

I am wondering how something like this can happen. I am ready to admit that my 
hardware (no, my PC's hardware) is rather crappy and I wouldn't be too 
surprised to find out that one of my memory chips has some problem.

But I cannot think of a way, in which a hardware problem could cause the 
behavior described above.

Anybody got a hint?

Manni