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From: dcd@tc.fluke.COM (David Dyck)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Negative stack &malloc for elvis
Keywords: elvis -i
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Date: 7 Feb 90 04:34:02 GMT
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In article <10230@nigel.udel.EDU> IZPH%MUSICB.MCGILL.CA@vm1.cc.mcgill.ca (IZPH000) writes:
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>I just finished with compiling elvis using Makefile.pc. Sizes are as followed :
>
>On my 386 running in PM (v1.4), I got "Memory fault. Core dumped" message.
>On my XT running in real mode(v1.5), stdin is just simply copied to stdout.
>Sometimes I got the message " Floating Exception" and and nothing help but a
>cold boot.
>
....
>
>Phi-Ho Hoang.
>(IZPH@MusicB.McGill.CA)


The pc makefile (makefile.pc) for elvis did not include the -i cc flag.

Add it to your cc command and re-link.
I uses elvis almost every day, there are a few bugs, but it is a good
working editor, and if it does crash, the virecover program has gotten
back what I needed.

            David Dyck
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