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- From: lohse@desy.de (Frankpeter Lohse)
- Subject: Crashing OS/2 from DOS window
- Message-ID: <lohse.2.0@desy.de>
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- Organization: Deutsches Elektonen Synchrotron DESY
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 11:16:38 GMT
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- Hi,
-
- when I tried to test the DOS features of my OS/2 2.0 machines it crashes!
- I wrote the following simple test program :
-
- #include <stdio.h>
-
- main()
- {
- int i;
- int far *a;
- a = 0;
- for (i=0; i<10000; i++) a[i]=i;
- }
-
- When runing this program on a DOS machine the computer hangs and after
- reboot, the setup is destroyed.
- On an OS/2 machine I expected to get a general protection fault or
- something like that but what I got was system crash. I can reproduce two
- diffenrent results (with different machines) :
-
- 1. A register dump and a stopped system, reboot works fine.
- 2. System hangs (no reg dump) and setup is destroyed.
-
- My question : what is the reason for this crash and can I protect my
- system against it?
-
- Thanks in advance,
- Frankpeter
-
- P.S. : We're using COMPAQ 386/25e with a german version of OS/2 2.0.
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