Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 12:19:01 PDT
From: Peter Crowley <pcrowley AT qdeck DOT com>
To: arrakis!thor AT uunet DOT uu DOT net, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Running GCC (1.08) under DESQview/X

> Is it, in fact, the case that DJGPP 1.08 will run under DV/X 1.02+, or is
> that still forthcoming?  If it does, why do you suppose mine is hanging?
>Is there some special setting or command-line switch required?

GO32 1.08 has problems with I/O ports when run under DESQview or DESQview/X. 
This manifests itself through the loss of either the keyboard or mouse or the
failure of comm programs. Below is a message from DJ relating to this problem:

Subject: djgpp 1.08 and serial comms under dv/x

Quarterdeck pointed out the bug that causes serial ports to die when
any go32 program is run.  I have (theoretically) fixed the bug and I'm
working on a 1.09 release which will contain this fix, and a number of
other recently-posted patches.  Please discontinue discussion of the
problem until 1.09 is available.

For those of you who are impatient, try commenting out the lines:
     sub  al,bl
     add  al,8

just before the label "no_move" in mswitch.asm.  Other changes may be
required - my fix has lots - but I leave that as an excersize for the
reader :-)




Peter Crowley
Quarterdeck Offices Systems