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From: gtoal@tardis.computer-science.edinburgh.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: C problem. any ideas?
Message-ID: <9105010718.AA17448@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 1 May 91 00:42:19 GMT
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I have a program I ported to the archie which misbehaves horribly
if I make the smallest changes to it.  I don't think it's the
usual unassigned variable problems, or heap cotruption, or wild
pointers -- because a very suspicious thing happens:  It works
correctly only under C3.1B compiled with -g.  Any other compiler,
it goes wrong. Not -g, it goes wrong.  And the clincher is... using
the desktop debugger it actually gives an address trap *inside the
debugger* before it even gets to the first line of main.  I haven't
a clue what could cause those symtoms. Any ideas?

Graham
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