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From: elee24@castle.ed.ac.uk (H Bruce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: When CTRL+C doesn't work.
Message-ID: <6241@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Sep 90 13:02:59 GMT
Organization: Dept. Electrical Engineering, Edinburgh University, Scotland, UK.
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I am getting more distenchanted with my PC .......
I am implementing image processing algortihms (using Microsoft C 5.1).
Such algorithms consist of many nested loops.
When a bug in my code causes a loop never to exit the PC hangs.
This is not because DOS has crashed but beacuse the microprocessor cannot
be interrupted by CRTL+C or CTLR+BREAK.
This result is that the PC must be rebooted.
This is a very time consuming way to find bugs !
Does anyone know how I can interrupt the program ?

Putting "break=on" into my config.sys file makes no difference.


Thanks,

Henry Bruce.