From: GAMMELJL AT SLU DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 11:13:43 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: problem with new malloc.c attn: Eli Zaretskii
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Organization: SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY  St. Louis, MO
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     I have just posted the symified error messages.  However, it is
the last error message, not the first as you wanted.  I cannot press
pause quickly enough to see the first error message, and even if I could
I would not be at the C:\prompt where I type symify -o dumpfile newbug.exe.
     I understand that I cannot redirect cerr.  I will try to
understand what you were saying about other schemes for writing
the error messages to a file, but how would I symify them if I
did?
     By the way: I never mentioned that I am working in plain DOS
(press F8 after "starting windows 95" appears and then selecting
option 6) and not in a DOS box.  There is no problem in a DOS box,
but then one does not have the djgpp memory managers and access
to at least 128mb of ram as we have discussed in the past.  I assume
that you know I refer to plain DOS.  My config.sys and autoexec.bat
for plain DOS have been posted in the past.
     Actually, I believe that what you are saying about free is the
key to the problem, but I don't see where I am invoking the
destructors anyway--I never actually delete anything in the little
example I posted (or my big codes either for that matter).  But the
compiler may.
     In a way, all of this is a problem encountered by a not overly
knowledgeable end user, but I thought those who write the compilers
and memory managers which we end users use should (perhaps) know
what it is that we have trouble with.