Re: Div by 0 -> :(

["KingFish" <king.fish@myokay.net>]

> It's cause by using crt.tpu in Turbo Pascal 7.0
> I've make a simple program:
>
> uses crt;
> 
> begin
> end.
> 
> then crash by that error message ... "Devide by zero"
> I've tracking by Turbo Debugger ...
> but ... the memory crash ( using EMM386.EXE ) ..
> my computer had to restart again ...
I thought I'd explained that problem properly, but if you are new on 
the list i will explain it another time... hopefully the last one *puh*
So, in the crt-library is a function called delay(). This function stops 
the program for a specifed amount of time, normally such like 500 
milliseconds or so. This function must calculate some variables 
using the speed of the cpu cause the program must stop 500 
milliseconds on a faster computer, too. But due to the muddy 
programming of the Borland (now Inprise) team this will cause a 
runtime error 200: division by zero on computers faster than 200 
mhz.
This bug is only able to fix using pre-written patchers, just like 
tppatch which i prefer, or you sit down and patch the file manually 
which takes long and is difficult <- asm debugging, deleting of code 
without changing any important, and so on...

You see, if you still want develop under tp/bp7 for high speed 
computers you need special knowledge or a patcher. Just serach 
the net for it or ask me to send it to you (5k zipped).
king.fish@myokay.net?subject=tppatch


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