Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/09/08:13:17
> HIMEM.SYS, the Norton Cache, v6.01, but no EMM386
> Every few days, the compiler crashes for no apparent reason. The last
> time it crashed I transcribed the dump:
You are getting crashes when hardware interrupts are being reflected from
real mode to protected mode.
> suspect that typing ahead during the compilation may have something to do
This makes a lot of sense - that is the only HW interrupt which is hooked
by default by DJGPP images (to catch ^C).
> handlers -- but the compiler itself is crashing, not my program, so I'm at
> a loss as to what to do.
It's something strange in your environment. I suspect the Norton Cache/Himem
setup, since mode swaps/memory access is less controlled than under EMM386.
The Norton Cache may also be a real mode stack hog, or do something naughty.
I would try first running EMM386 to see if the presence of VCPI makes it
better behaved. You could try to increase the CWSDPMI heap size, but I
doubt that would help much. Try another disk cache.
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