----- исходное сообщение ----- От: "David Brown" <da...@westcontrol.com> Тема: Re: [Mspgcc-users] Segmentation fault on win 98
>My advice to people having trouble with running things like msp-gcc on Win98 >is to fix the source of the problem - drop Win98. Get a real OS. If you >can get away with it, go for Linux (or one of its friends) - if, like me and >like many others, you need windows-specific programs programs in your daily >work, then use W2K. There are *very* few good reasons for insisting on >Win98, especially if you are willing to spend the time reformating your >harddisk. 2 additions. 1) If you want to upgrade win9x to something NT-based, WinXP is a good choice. There are fewer bugs than in w2k. I use some cygwin stuff on WinXP (including mspgcc, of course), and it works well. 2) Usually the main reason to use 'dos-based' windows is a large amount of programs (chip programmers, for example) which use direct access to COM or LPT ports. mspgcc toolchain is free of this restriction (thanks to 'giveio' library). There are many drivers (directIO, for example, through it isn't free) that allow DOS programs to use IO ports directly. So it shouldn't stop you from discarding that old OSes. WBR, Andrey Reznik (2:5020/2999, andrey_rez...@rambler.ru) Moderator of RU.COM.ACTIVEX --------- http://www.rambler.ru/
