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Q: Some programs, like Info and Less, hang on my Windows 9X machine after some time, requiring to close the DOS box. Help!!
Q: Bash hangs on Windows 9X after the first DJGPP program I run from it!
DJGPP
environment variable incorrectly, or didn't set it at all, or
messed up your DJGPP.ENV file by editing it. Refer to what to do if GCC hangs, later in this FAQ, for details about possible problems with
setting DJGPP
. When DJGPP
is not set, or points to a non-existent directory, the first release of GCC 2.8.1 would enter an endless loop (the NTDVM process on
Windows/NT will go nuts allocating memory, as a result of this).
The latest uploads of the GCC 2.8.1 binary (v2gnu/gcc281b.zip) were modified to prevent them from hanging. This version aborts with an error message instead of hanging. You should
upgrade to the latest binaries of GCC, and also set your DJGPP
variable correctly.
Some people fail to read the release notes which come with GCC 2.8.1, and install it incorrectly. If you installed GCC 2.8.1 recently and it began to hang, now is the time to read those instructions again (they are installed as gnu/gcc-2.81/problems.txt). In particular, GCC 2.8.1 comes with a modified version of DJGPP.ENV which you should install over the stock version.
If interactive programs like Bash, Less, Info, Emacs, and RHIDE are those which hang, and if it only happens after running another DJGPP program from within those programs, then your
Windows 9X installation is afflicted by a subtle bug whereby programs which call function 1680h of the Interrupt 2Fh (to release the rest of their time slice when they are idle) hang after they spawn
another DJGPP program. A modified version of the library function __dpmi_yield
, which works around that bug in Windows, is available (it will be part of DJGPP v2.02 release), and latest
uploads of the binaries for the affected programs should be free from this problem. If you cannot find a pre-compiled binary that works, get the sources and rebuild the program with a fixed version
of __dpmi_yield
.
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