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From: iand@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Ian Robert DOBSON)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: THINK C 4.0 bug?
Message-ID: <5364@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 5 Sep 90 11:49:24 GMT
Sender: news@cs.mu.oz.au
Reply-To: iand@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Ian Robert DOBSON)
Organization: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Melbourne
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I just went out and bought THINK C 4.0 and have come across an interesting
bug.  Using the "ANSI" and "MacTraps" libraries with default project settings
(384K, no 68020/68881 etc.) bombed the machine when executing the following
code:

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
	char array[32000];

	printf("\nHello, world!\n");
}


The array allocation bombs the machine, the printf never executes, and after
a click or two the menus jam up and the machine needs a reboot.

Can anybody suggest any reason for this problem, and any remedy without
dynamically allocating the array with 'malloc', 'NewPtr' etc.

Ian R. Dobson
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
University of Melbourne, Australia
(internet: iand@mullian.ee.mu.oz.AU)