Sunday April 16 1995 16:33, Mike Bilow wrote to Bob Swift:

 BS>> Can anybody tell me what Exception Error 0005 is, and where

 MB> It is a memory issue, and it does not show up under DOS because
 MB> there is nothing there to stop you from overwriting memory owned
 MB> by some other process or by the operating system itself.

 MB> The actual list of these codes is in BSEXCPT.H, which you will
 MB> usually find in \WATCOM\H\OS2.  For example:

Aha!  That's what I was looking for.  Many thanks.  (Now why couldn't they
include reference to it in the documentation -- or did I miss it there
too?)

 MB> Basically, the 0xC000 stuff means "fatal error" and the 0x0005
 MB> stuff tells you the actual exception.  You can set up the
 MB> exception handling system under OS/2 to give you more
 MB> information, such as register dumps and so on.

Never needed to do that before.  Might have to look into it.  Then again,
OS/2 is showing me all of that now...

 MB> What happens when you run the program under the debugger?

Haven't tried it yet.  Still getting used to using Watcom and haven't figured
out all the new "tools" yet.

Bob


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