Hi gpc/djgpp users

I have recompiled gpc-20011202 for the "refresh" version announced below. But I have no Windows 2000 or XP machine to test it. I have only checked that it works well with W98se. It is uploaded on agnes as

ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/home/maurice/gpc-20011202-gcc-2953.i586-pc-msdosdjgpp-refresh.zip

When running in a W98se Dos box it gives zero error (2 tests skipped as usual) when running the test suite by going into the gcc/p/test directory and issuing simply "make": this was one of the improvements announced (Nesting will recover selectors). The dostest.bat which was designed to overcome this bug by splitting the tests in chunks of 250 will no more be necessary when/if this version will be uploaded to simtelnet. Meanwhile do not use it "as is" with this version because it triggers an other bug ... apparently the maximum length of the command line which can be passed from dostest.bat to make has been somewhat decreased: it works if the tests are split in chunks of only 128 ... The following diff will do the job:

--- dostest.bat.orig Thu Jan 4 07:22:08 2001 +++ dostest.bat Thu Dec 20 18:57:44 2001 @@ -28,6 +28,6 @@ if exist make.out del make.out if exist dtlist.* del dtlist.* make msg -ls -1 *.pas | split -l 250 - dtlist. +ls -1 *.pas | split -l 128 - dtlist. for %%f in (dtlist.*) do make MASK="`cat %%f`" pascal.check-long >> make.out sh test_sum < make.out

This diff can be included without harm in next gpc snapshots. Meanwhile a file gpc-test-20011202.zip (with modified dostest.bat) has been uploaded to agnes in the same directory as above for people wanting to check this version of gpc with Windows 2000 / XP. (The test suite is not included with the binaries).

-------- Message d'origine -------- Objet: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP V2.03 Refresh Beta Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 08:47:21 -0600 (CST) De: sandmann@clio.rice.edu (Charles Sandmann) Répondre-A: djgpp@delorie.com A: djgpp-announce@delorie.com

DJGPP release V2.03 has been available since January 2000. In that time a small number of bugs have been discovered and corrected. Windows 2000 and Windows XP were released with some bugs in their DOS support. The goal for the refreshed release was to provide complete binary compatibility and fixes for known problems that were simple and low risk to fix. The updated version works with Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP in addition to earlier platforms.

Fixes included in the update distribution:

Windows 2000 and XP long file name support fixes Windows 2000 and XP program nesting fixes Windows 2000 and XP debugging breakpoint fixes Windows NT, 2000 and XP sbrk address wrap fixes Windows ME fixes in rename and mkdir __dpmi_simulate_real_mode_procedure_retf_stack fix Symify fixes to prevent crashes on symbol interpretation Error message instead of crash if no selector for _dos_ds Termios read bug fix on STDIN Format fix in strftime Freopen will always reuse same handle Nesting will recover selectors (long makes should not fail) Itimer fix for usecs == 0 Long path bug fixes (to prevent being treated as /) FSEXT fixes for dup and dup2 Y2K fix in djasm

More details (and html links to updated distributions) are available from:

http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main_203.htm

The files can also be retrieved using ftp from:

ftp://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/v203u/

Some key GNU distributions have been rebuilt with the updated library to make installs and building other packages easier on Windows 2000 and XP.

If you have a chance (or need any of the fixes mentioned) please try out the new distributions. If the distributions are an improvement over the current distributions they will replace the files on Simtel.