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From: wainhous@kcl-cs.UUCP (Andy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: C compiler bug (ANSI mode)
Keywords: Acorn C compiler version 3.00
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Date: 26 Feb 91 14:50:54 GMT
References: <1991Feb22.123151.11136@cns.umist.ac.uk>
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In article <1991Feb22.123151.11136@cns.umist.ac.uk> vanaards%t7@uk.ac.man.cs (vanaards) writes:
>
>  
>  I'm at the finishing stages of my finals project, and have come-across
>a little problem, there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the code
>which uses this structure but by removing the 'padding' (int :32) the
>program will cause the machine to hangup. The hangup occurs within a
>
>Any ideas ?
>

No idea what causes it but I have discovered that with my (old) version of
the Norcroft C compiler, if you try to use some enumerated types within
a structure the compiler breaks and at some random time afterwards, the entire
machine crashes!!


Andy.