On 22/05/2015 05:00, David Griffith wrote: > The "FROTZ" that appears in the crash message is from the > filename of the executable. If I rename > it to FOO.EXE, the crash message will contain "FOO".
Yes, that's because the 'system halt' message prints out the MCB when MCB corruption happens (which is stated in the message itself). The MCB is an area managed by DOS, vaguely looking like a linked list where DOS keeps information about all currently running processes. it's definitely a place that frotz should NEVER write to, hence my assumption that you are mis-writing something at some point in your code (writing over a non-allocated memory, using a wrapping index on an array, dereferencing a non-assigned pointer or so). The fact that you hit the MCB is quite of a chance, because that's one of the rare types of corruptions that DOS will actually detect. If you were writing to other places, you might trash completely different things (with more or less serious consequences) without DOS ever noticing. This doesn't mean that it's the only bug of course, it's completely possible that you are breaking many other things in the user's system, but the MCB corruption is the only one that DOS catches. Mateusz ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
