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From: scott@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Scott Linn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: program out of control
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Date: 16 Jan 90 19:14:51 GMT
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/ hpcvca:comp.lang.c / fredex@cg-atla.UUCP (Fred Smith) /  5:20 pm  Jan 14, 1990 /

>Just a hunch:  Whenever I make an apparently innocuous change in a 
>program, and some weird behavior in another part of the program suddenly
>changes, I instantly suspect that somewhere I am clobbering memory in
>some way.

Another reason is that you may be running out of stack space.  Whenever I have
these kinds of problems, I turn on stack checking during compilation.  This is
usually the problem that I have.

Scott Linn