I just attempted to install the gcc 2.95.1 (Thread Safe g++ for MPE/iX 6.0)
and the system crashed.

I FTPed all the tar files into the FREEWARE account, unpacked them using
tar, and converted all of the INSTALL files to fixed length files using
frombyte.

When I tried to execute INSTALL.GNUCORE, I got:

:INSTALL.GNUCORE
Removing old version of GNUCORE.
Installing new version of GNUCORE.
checking if /FREEWARE/GNUCORE/TARFILE is fully qualified
  dirname: , cwd: /FREEWARE/PUB
checking existence of /FREEWARE/GNUCORE/TARFILE
checking whether or not /FREEWARE/GNUCORE/TARFILE is in gzip format
begin installation of /FREEWARE/GNUCORE/TARFILE

and then I waited. When it didn't come back I checked the console and found
a number of Streams/iX ERROR messages of the form:

mpe_free(0x8838d000): Error Invalid address
address is not aligned. Buffer Size: 8192

culminating in:

SYSTEM ABORT 818 FROM SUBSYSTEM 122
SYSTEM HALT 7, $0332

Has anybody else had this problem? Does anybody know what caused it?

Thanks in advance,

Bruce Collins


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