Hi,

I rebuilt Ocaml with the latest Cygwin version and now it works.

Rolf 
 
> I also get it, essentially the toplevel always crashed when you
> get some kind of type-error or undefined. Note below that the
> function 'g' isn't defined.
> 
> I run the latest cygwin (since it is so easy to update, just run
> setup.exe again and it updates the necessary parts).
> 
> I didn't get that kind of behaviour using the pre 3.01 cygwin-versions.
> Maybe the error isn't that you need the latest cygwin, but the same cygwin
> that was used to build ocaml. (I used the binary installs.)
> 
> You could try to download the source and recompile it locally.
> 
> /mattias
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr
> [mailto:owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr]On Behalf Of wester@ilt.fhg.de
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 4:16 PM To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re:
> [Caml-list] Cygwin ocaml crashes
> 
> 
> Hi Alan,
> 
> thanks  for your reply. The toplevel also chrashes when I use it directly.
> I downloaded and installed the latest  cygwin version. But the toplevel
> still chrashes when using an undefined symbol.
> 
> Rolf Wester
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I also had this problem (using the toplevel in cygwin, not emacs), and
> > solved it by getting a more recent version of cygwin.
> >
> > Alan Schmitt
> >
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I downloaded the CYGWIN version of OCaml301 and started the
> > >toplevel in Emacs. But when using an undefined value (what occasionally
> > >happens) the program crashes. See below the Emacs output of ocaml:
> > >
> > >        Objective Caml version 3.01
> > >
> > ># 1+2;;
> > >- : int = 3
> > ># let f x = x*x;;
> > >val f : int -> int = <fun>
> > ># f 3;;
> > >- : int = 9
> > ># g 3;;
> > >      0 [main] ocaml 129 handle_exceptions: Exception:
> > >      STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
> > >  47809 [main] ocaml 129 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to
> > >  ocamlrun.exe.stackdump
> > >
> > >Process caml-toplevel exited abnormally with code 232192
> > >
> > >Is it possible to avoid this?
> > >
> > >Rolf Wester
> >
> > --
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> > happen.
> >
> 
> 
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