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From: mykes@3comvax.UUCP (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Lattice C Problem
Message-ID: <319@3comvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 15:05:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  2 15:05:00 1986
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Organization: 3Com Corp; Mountain View, CA
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Keywords: C

In article <2440@ukma.UUCP> ken@ukma.UUCP (Ken Kubota) writes:
>The Lattice C compiler (version 1.0) for the Amiga seems to have
>trouble handling complicated statements.  As an extreme case, this
>short rather questionable code causes a 'guru meditation' on a 512K
>machine with 2 floppies under AmigaDOS 1.1.
>
>main(){
>int a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,j;
>if(a<0)if(b<0)if(c<0)if(d<0)if(e<0)if(f<0)if(g<0)if(h<0)if(i<0)if(j<0)a=0;
>}
>
>cbosgd!ukma!ken
>ken@ukma.bitnet


Lattice apparently recursively parses your if statement until it overflows
the stack and dies.  I had a similar problem with:
	if (...) 
	else if (...)
	else if (...)
	...
	else
(a whole bunch of them).

mike schwartz