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From: stefanb@cip-s02.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Bug in MANX 5.0?
Keywords: c bug manx
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Date: 4 May 90 15:42:31 GMT
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Reply-To: stefanb@cip-s02.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Stefan Becker)
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Hi there!
I've discovered a weird thing in Aztec-C V5.0a. If your program (with large
data model) contains >256KB uninitialized data (BSS hunk), it will run normal, 
but when you call exit(), the machine guru's. I tried to follow the program 
flow with an asm debugger, but I find only some strange code in exit(). Maybe
the linker is the proplem.

To 'test' this bug, try the following program:

/* Begin */
unsigned char t[262144]; /* == 256KB of unitilialized data */

main()
{
}
/* End */

Every value below 262144 (actually 262141) works OK, values greater as this 
limit crashes the machine.

Any solutions?

	Stefan

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