[comp.windows.ms.programmer] Strange run-time error with Borland C++2.0 IDE

mcmillan@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu (Harold McMillan) (04/08/91)

I just got Borland C++ 2.0 and a brand-new computer - a Gateway 2000 386
- 33MHz with 4Mb RAM.  I consistently get the following error after a
few cycles of compling and running the CIRCLE.PRJ demo program.  The
error occurs when I try to run the program within the BCX environment.

GP at 0020 4FCA EC 0148
GP at 0020 59A0 EC 05C4
System: Cannot recover from exception
System: Kernel cannot continue
Error: Cannot load BCX.OVY because real-mode version is already running

I assure you that I have not been running BC when this occurs.
I am running BCX with no command-line options.
At this point, the ONLY device driver that I have
loaded is a mouse, but this error also occurs when I have QEMM and/or
PC-CACHE loaded.

I realize that this problem concerns a particular compiler, and not
the general topic of this group, but I was hoping that a nuber of you
are users of this compiler.

- Hal McMillan
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Hal McMillan                | "It's an ideal principle, which can be verified
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mcmillan@harpsichord.cis.ohio-state.edu (Harold McMillan) (04/09/91)

It seems that the problem with the GP exception  in Borland C++ 2.0
that I posted earlier may have to do with the Microsoft mouse driver.
Someone sent me mail to this effect, and I have not seen the problem
recur without the mouse driver loaded.  Now, how on earth did Borland
design BCX to be incompatible with the Microsoft Mouse, or did they
just see this as a way to get back at Microsoft?

	Hal
--
Hal McMillan                | "It's an ideal principle, which can be verified
mcmillan@cis.ohio-state.edu |  only under ideal conditions.  Which means never.
72627.642@CompuServe.com    |  But it's still true."