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Re: TURBO PASCAL, CRASHING ON PIII 450!!!

Posted by Benjamin Johnston on 2000-01-25

> Subject: Re: TURBO PASCAL, CRASHING ON PIII 450!!!
>
> I have just bought myself an Intel Pentium III 450
> machine.

Was your previous machine "slower" than an Intel Pentium II?

> My versions of turbo pascal keep crashing with a divde
> by zero error. I use TP version 7.

I noticed that a couple of dos programs, which may have been written in TP
(and ran perfectly on my older computers), crashed on my Pentium II. If I
try reloading the program multiple times, it eventually works.

(when I say, "may have been written in TP", I mean that I wouldn't be
suprised if they were written in TP - and that it would make sense if they
were crashing because they were written in TP7)

> The error only occurs when I run the program with the
> Crt unit included.

Maybe there is a bug in the Crt unit... and maybe there is a patch for it
somewhere.
(Is Turbo Pascal made by Borland/Inprise? is there one at the developers'
website? or is it a reported bug, at the developers' website?)

> Is there something I need to set up to resolve this
> error?

I probably haven't been much help - but if you send me a test program (and
convince me that you haven't compiled malicious code)... I'd be happy to run
it on my PII, to see if it crashes. (Or maybe someone with a PIII would also
do the same thing?)

-Benjamin Johnston
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