Re: EMX problem

From	"Dave Saville" <dave@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.os2.programmer.misc
Subject	Re: EMX problem
Date	2011-04-04 19:01 +0000
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On Mon, 4 Apr 2011 17:27:02 UTC, Ilya Zakharevich 
<nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> wrote:

> On 2011-04-03, Dave Saville <dave@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> > 2) Now compiles clean with -Zomf. But there is a problem in that YAOS 
> > thinks the max command line is 260 chars. Luckily it was a #define so 
> > I bumped it to 1024. Testing one function and it crashes. Tracked it 
> > down to the 1024. reducing to 807 and it stops crashing. Can't see 
> > why. Just for fun I recomplied at 1024 without the -Zomf - and it does
> > not crash. But in this case I need to fix the original problem of the 
> > link failing on __16_DosSmSetTitle (I commented the call out for the 
> > test.)
> 
> a) Update the max command line to the correct value, 32K.
> 
> b) Read what the crash errorlog tells you.
> 

Not easy when there is none - Just a SYS* message.  GDB won't look at 
an exe compiled with -Zomf and compiling without it does not show the 
problem. Not producing a core file and I can't remember how to turn it
back on.

> When porting, I always use -Zstack 8000; this way, the stack overflows
> are first caught by the Unix porters, not by me.
> 

Nice one. 

Working again - it was the stack size. Thanks.
-- 
Regards
Dave Saville

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Re: EMX problem "Dave Saville" <dave@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-03 20:31 +0000
  Re: EMX problem Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> - 2011-04-04 17:27 +0000
    Re: EMX problem "Dave Saville" <dave@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-04 19:01 +0000
      Re: EMX problem Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> - 2011-04-04 21:30 +0000
        Re: EMX problem "Dave Saville" <dave@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-05 13:43 +0000
          Re: EMX problem Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> - 2011-04-05 18:55 +0000
      Re: EMX problem "A.D. Fundum" <what.ever@neverm.ind> - 2011-04-06 13:24 +0200

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