To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: upgrade chaos
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From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
Date: 18 Jan 2000 10:32:00 +0200
In-Reply-To: sandmann@clio.rice.edu's message of "Thu, 13 Jan 2000 08:26:23 -0600 (CST)"
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sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann) writes:

> Since most platforms dzero memory used for the first time for 
> security reasons - and the DPMI provider is free not to - you will
> see interesting non-reproducible bugs in DJGPP which are not seen
> elsewhere.  There is a crt0 flag which allows you to zero the memory
> (which should do the stack too) and allows "fixing" these bugs
> by making the DJGPP environment look even more unix-like.

There's also the crt0 flag which fills all memory with 0xdeadbeef.  That,
at least, will make the bugs reproducible.  Has anyone tried GCC (or any
other complex ported program) compiled with _CRT0_FLAG_FILL_DEADBEEF set?

-- 
Esa Peuha
student of mathematics at the University of Helsinki
http://www.helsinki.fi/~peuha/