Post install smoke test (or "Oh no not again")

2003-03-11 Thread Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury]
Hi, I just did a fresh installation of gcc on another machine and had an "oh no not again" moment. Attempting to compile: int main(int argc,char** argv) { return 0; } //main Gives the output: gcc hello.o -o hello.exe -lstdc++ hello.o(.text+0x0):fake: multiple definition of `_mainCRTStar

RE: gcc Core Dump

2003-03-06 Thread Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury]
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 06 March 2003 15:14 >To: Max Bowsher >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: gcc Core Dump > > >Max, David, > >thanks very much for your help. >I didn't know that my cygwin version is so old. I had just >clean in

RE: Exception: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION occurs before main is executed.

2003-03-06 Thread Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury]
>-Original Message- >From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 06 March 2003 14:43 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Exception: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION occurs >before main is executed. > > >> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbur

RE: Exception: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION occurs before main is executed.

2003-03-06 Thread Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury]
>-Original Message- >From: Max Bowsher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 06 March 2003 11:39 >To: Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Exception: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION occurs >before main is executed. > > >Br

RE: whining (was: RE: Why is gcc3.2 prerelease?)

2003-03-06 Thread Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury]
>-Original Message- >From: Stephan Mueller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 05 March 2003 21:34 >To: Jim Drash; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: OT: whining (was: RE: Why is gcc3.2 prerelease?) > > >I'm not being thin-skinned -- I was using an example from >Andrew's mail (the M$ reference) t

RE: Exception: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION occurs before main is executed.

2003-03-06 Thread Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury]
>-Original Message- >From: Steven O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 05 March 2003 11:36 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Exception: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION occurs >before main is executed. > > >Bruce Adams wrote: >> I have lately been having real problems with vanilla gc

RE: Exception: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION occurs before main is executed.

2003-03-06 Thread Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury]
>-Original Message- >From: Brian Ford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 05 March 2003 21:22 >To: Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Exception: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION occurs >before main is executed. > > >A comment and a q

RE: Why is gcc 3.2 prerelease?

2003-03-05 Thread Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury]
>-Original Message- >From: Andrew Markebo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 05 March 2003 16:15 >To: Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury] >Subject: Re: Why is gcc 3.2 prerelease? > > >Hi! > >I suppose you have heard this, but I vote for that GCC 3 burfs >on an e

RE: Why is gcc 3.2 prerelease?

2003-03-05 Thread Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury]
> >On Wednesday, March 5, 2003 at 10:24:55, Bruce Adams wrote: [...] >> The reason I ask is that I need to use gcc 3.0 for its >> better ISO C++ compliance and STL but I'm having a lot of problems >> with programs compiling (and linting) perfectly but crashing >when run. > >I am compiling a proj

Why is gcc 3.2 prerelease?

2003-03-05 Thread Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury]
Hi, The answer to this question ought to be in the documentation somewhere but I couldn't find it. The version of gcc installed by setup is: gcc version 3.2 20020818 (prerelease) Ignoring the 2.9x version. Why are we still using a prerelease version? According to gcc.gnu.org the versions

Exception: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION occurs before main is executed.

2003-03-03 Thread Bruce Adams [TEPG Sunbury]
Hi, I have lately been having real problems with vanilla gcc 3.2 generating executables that crash. Its manifestation does not seem to follow an obvious pattern and changing the options to gcc (e.g. -ggdb versus -gstabs or no -g at all) does not make any difference. Does anybody have any idea