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From: taylorj@yvax.byu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Possible TD2.01,TP6.0 Bugs
Message-ID: <1895taylorj@yvax.byu.edu>
Date: 20 Dec 90 02:21:38 GMT
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In <2874@laura.UUCP>, neuhaus@exunido.uucp (Jan Neuhaus) mentions problems with
Turbo Pascal 6.0 and writes:

>II) Most of the compiled programs hanged. They all used overlays and
>where more than 32000 lines large with several units. They all
>worked fine with TP5.5. The debugger discoverd an endless loop in a
>part of the overlaymananger, or a jump to an illegal code segment
>when a routine in an overlay was called, or the whole system
>(including the debugger) hangs.

I have run into this same problem.  A large program of mine (about 19000 lines)
which ran just fine under versions of TP up to 5.0 hangs or gets nonsense
errors when compiled with TP 6.0.  The problem seems related to overlays.  When
I compile the program without overlays it runs just fine.

If anyone else has had this problem, please let us and Borland know.  (And if
there's a solution, that would be nice to know about also :-).

Jim Taylor
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