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to: rowan crowe
from: Bill Grimsley
date: 1995-06-02 06:56:02
subject: MSQ bug.

Rowan, at 13:29 on May 31 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> Instruction: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

PE> I don't know how to debug using this.

BG> Neither do I.  Sadly, mine is an "evaluation" copy of QEMM 7.02, 
BG> the special one which has no documentation or manuals.  |-)

rc> Simple, you load it into your favourite debugger (even DEBUG 
rc> might do the trick), and enter the instruction bytes, and view 
rc> the corresponding disassembly.

That presupposes a knowledge off ASM functions though, which I don't have.

rc> If it's an obvious coding error then it will show up, if you're lucky. 
rc> However "00 00 ..." is not normal code. ;-)

True, but that was a pretty unique bunch of Exception 13s.  I've never seen
all 00s before, and suspect such a major crash, that the bad instruction
had been cleared from memory prior to QEMM's report.  Just a guess, of
course.

rc> BTW, you can upgrade your evaluation copy of QEMM 7.02 to at 
rc> least 7.04 by using patches, with no charge.

I think I did once - 702TO704.ZIP comes to mind here.

rc> Upgrading to 7.5 requires a new evaluation copy.

No problem, as I no longer run native DOS, I no longer need to evaluate any
memory managers.  I almost bought QEMM once, purely out of guilt, but
decided that paying more for a 3rd party memory manager than the entire
operating system costs, was more than just a bit stupid.  Glad I didn't
now.

Regards, Bill
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