> I could not even reproduce the hangup after removing -g -DDJGPP and inserting
> -O again. (The -DDJGPP wasn't of any cause anyway, so forget about this).
> It must have to do with some strange constellation. I would be interested
> to hear if others who observed  the hang up using -O can always reproduce
> the machine hang or if the effect occurs in the same spurious way.

I have had huge problems getting unepic to uncompress a 640 x 640 image without
dying in this way.  The error is intermittent in the sense that sometimes it
won't happen.  But it's not just a matter of trying again until it works;
usually, it doesn't work.

The PC dilemma:  a machine which is complex enough to have subtile problems,
but not powerful enough to let you fix them.

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Mr. David W. Flater      davidf AT cs DOT umbc DOT edu                 "Nothing works."
Disclaimer:  Nobody ever holds my opinions.               "Nothing EVER works!"
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