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From: moran@yale-zoo-suned..arpa (William Moran)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: turbo c development
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Date: Tue, 17-Nov-87 19:21:16 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 17 19:21:16 1987
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In article <688@louie.udel.EDU> ESC1111%DDAESA10.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu (N.Head) writes:
>> ... turboc locks up PC now and again ...  patches
>
>Although not MINIX I take the liberty of answering here!
>
>I don't think any of the patches (Compuserve, BIX)  (me as a last resort)
>fix problems that cause TC to kill the system. I had similar things and it
>seems to have been a bad memory chip somewhere in the high address range
>which TC seems to use a lot (most other software doesn't get that far it I
>guess). and NO  - the power on memory test didn't find it (what did you expect)
>Cheers, Nigel.

Not a chance. Turbo C does indeed lock up the system. In trying to
compile some code, I once tried 3 different ATs and 2 different XTs
all of which got hung by it. The problem is that turboc doesn't clean
up after itself. The easiest way to see what I mean is to Make
something that does about 10 compiles of reasonably large programs in
a row. It is almost guaranteed to hang.
			  
			  William L. Moran Jr.
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