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From: bower@hfsi.UUCP (Michael Bower Comm. )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Possible bug in TC++
Message-ID: <387@hfsi.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jul 90 18:55:14 GMT
Reply-To: bower@hfsi.UUCP (Michael Bower Comm. )
Distribution: usa
Organization: Honeywell Federal Systems Inc., McLean VA.
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I am having a curious "bug" occurr with my TC++ and I was wondering 
anybody has experienced this.  Or if others would like to try this
and let me know how your machine acts, I would also like that.

The "bug" is this.

1) Enter the environment.

2) Build a simple program that counts from 1 to 200

main()
{
int i;
for (i=1;i<201;i++) printf("\n%3d",i);
}

(I didn't say it was good code....:-))

3) start the program

4) after it has counted up a while, hit the ctrl-break key to
   stop the program.

On my machine at home, I get the following "gotcha".

At first the numbers are going by fairly fast.  After I hit the ctrl-break
keys, they continue but they slow down considerably.  If I hit the ctrl-break
keys AGAIN, I will drop OUT OF TC++ and BACK AT MY DOS PROMPT.  If I now
type "tc" again to enter the TC environment, my system LOCKS up to the point
that ctrl-alt-del won't even recover it.  I have to hit the reset button.

I tried this on a different machine and it would sometimes do the above and
sometimes stop like it should.  On a third machine, it won't crash it.

I thought maybe it might be my ENVIRONMENT on the first machine but evening
running it with no TSR's still crashes.

Comments?  Suggestions?  Is this a real bug?

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