Subj : Open Watcom 2.0 port of HPT
To   : Michael Pierce
From : andrew clarke
Date : Sun Feb 14 2021 19:09:48

13 Feb 21 18:16, you wrote to me:

 ac>> Disclaimer:

 ac>> I haven't actually tested the resulting binaries much yet. The main
 ac>> challenge I set myself was just to get HPT to build without errors.

 MP> this is on OS2, using wmake -f makefile.watcom OS2=2

 MP> huskylib compiles, smapi compiles but
 MP> areafix gives Error! E1011: Symbol 'MAXPATHLEN' has not been declared
 MP> and
 MP> Error! Expression most be comstant

Strange. Evidently OW2.0 is a bit of a moving target, but that shouldn't happen. It built without error on a OW2.0 snapshot from 2020-12-26.

I've subsequently updated to the latest OW2.0 snapshot and got the same error as you, so have committed a fix to huskylib just now.

The bad news is running "hpt.exe toss" (without any configuration set) actually froze my OS/2 VM.


Actually I think the freezing is a problem with the VM or a bug in the OS/2 JFS driver and not Watcom's fault, because it (1) wouldn't boot correctly the first time after a reboot and (2) generated a POPUPLOG.OS2 error before it froze:

02-14-2021  19:08:14  SYS3175  PID 0165  TID 0001  Slot 006d
C:\SRC\WATHUSKY\HPT\MAKE\HPT.EXE
c0000005
00020de6
P1=00000001  P2=00000d9d  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX
EAX=00000d9d  EBX=00000d9d  ECX=00000000  EDX=00000000
ESI=00000002  EDI=00000d9d
DS=0053  DSACC=d0f3  DSLIM=5fffffff
ES=0053  ESACC=d0f3  ESLIM=5fffffff
FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=005b:00020de6  CSACC=d0df  CSLIM=5fffffff
SS:ESP=0053:0008ff9c  SSACC=d0f3  SSLIM=5fffffff
EBP=001000f4  FLG=00010246

HPT.EXE 0002:00000de6


But until I reinstall my OS/2 VM so it's stable, I can't tell you what's causing HPT to segfault. I bet it's something stupid though.

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