gossa@rdge44.enet.dec.com (Andrew Goss) (06/06/90)
I have a strange problem installing the new Lattice C compiler on my
65meg TCT hard drive. ( I have a 520STFM expanded to 1meg).
1) If I do a minimal installation (about 1.5megs) Then everything is O.K
2) If I go for a full istallation (5meg spread over 7 DS floppies) Then I get
strange errors like the program LC.PRG is unable to create intermediate files
and GO.PRG,LC2.PRG and CLINK.PRG crash with various amounts of bombs.
Recopying the files from the floppies seems to cure the problems, but it then
has errors linking (I think the floating point library is corrupt).
Could the problems be due to the 40 FOLDER BUG??. I'm running ICD BOOT
v4.6.0 which says it includes a fix for this and I set the number of extra
folders to 200.
if I run DLII it reports no cross linked or lost sectors but does complain
about the directory structure being bad. DCDEMO.PRG complains about garbage
characters at the end of the directory tables.
Does anybody have any experience with Lattice C v5 or ICD's software v4.6.0
and could some kind person mail me a good description of the 40 folder bug.
Thanx in advance
- Andrew -Chris.Forker@newcastle.ac.uk (Chris Forker - Nav Arch-) (06/07/90)
In article <198@uninet.vbo.dec.com> gossa@rdge44.enet.dec.com (Andrew Goss) writes: > > I have a strange problem installing the new Lattice C compiler on my >65meg TCT hard drive. ( I have a 520STFM expanded to 1meg). I have Lattice C v5 and have experienced no problems installing it on my 20meg Supra. > Could the problems be due to the 40 FOLDER BUG??. I'm running ICD BOOT > v4.6.0 which says it includes a fix for this and I set the number of extra > folders to 200. I have the 40 Folder fix set to 100. No problems encountered yet. As I understand the problem, TOS 1.X has an internal pool of memory which it uses. The initial memory reserved for this purpose was not sufficient to hold all the necessary data under certain conditions. One of the conditions arose when 40 active folders were encountered. From discussions in this news group, I have learn't that there are other contributing factors to the reduction of the initial memory pool, for example when a application uses malloc frequently. > if I run DLII it reports no cross linked or lost sectors but does complain > about the directory structure being bad. DCDEMO.PRG complains about garbage > characters at the end of the directory tables. > > Does anybody have any experience with Lattice C v5 or ICD's software v4.6.0 > and could some kind person mail me a good description of the 40 folder bug. > > Thanx in advance > > - Andrew - All I can suggest is that you try using the Folder patch instead of ICD's in case it is not behaving properly. Also check that you have correctly set up the environmental variables. Failing that try contacting your supplier of Lattice for advice. I could not tell were your posting came from, but HiSoft in England are the distributors here, and they do read this news group occasionally, any advice HiSoft. Good luck Chris.... +-=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--+--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-+ | mail: Chris.Forker@newcastle.ac.uk | Dept. Marine Technology | | voice: +44 91 2226000 X 6750 | Newcastle University | | fax: +44 91 2611182 | Newcastle upon Tyne | | | NE1 7RU ENGLAND | +-=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--+--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-+
AlexK@tharr.UUCP (Alex Kiernan) (06/11/90)
In article <198@uninet.vbo.dec.com> gossa@rdge44.enet.dec.com (Andrew Goss) writes: > >1) If I do a minimal installation (about 1.5megs) Then everything is O.K > >2) If I go for a full istallation (5meg spread over 7 DS floppies) Then I get > strange errors like the program LC.PRG is unable to create intermediate files > and GO.PRG,LC2.PRG and CLINK.PRG crash with various amounts of bombs. > Recopying the files from the floppies seems to cure the problems, but it then > has errors linking (I think the floating point library is corrupt). > I'm not aware of any problems such as this in the installation program. There do seem to be soom screwy things in it however when running on pre-1.4 machines to do with disk changes going AWOL. That is probably what has happened, I'm getting the chap who wrote install.prg and batcher.prg to look into it. > Could the problems be due to the 40 FOLDER BUG??. I'm running ICD BOOT > v4.6.0 which says it includes a fix for this and I set the number of extra > folders to 200. ICD 4.6.0 should be fine, I use it myself, so I would probably have spotted problems by now! Alex Kiernan, HiSoft. P.S. sorry I butchered your original post so badly, my news poster point blank refused it, until I hacked it around liberally.