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From: kenchiu@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kenneth Chiu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Strange Guru Visitation
Message-ID: <1704@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 10 Feb 88 19:30:37 GMT
References: <5209@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: kenchiu@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kenneth Chiu)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
Lines: 13
Keywords: Guru Programming C what-a-mess help-me-spock

In article <5209@well.UUCP> shf@well.UUCP (Stuart H. Ferguson) writes:
>	float v[3];
>	BOOL flag[3];
>	UBYTE s[8];
>
>When I made these GLOBAL variables instead of auto variables, the 
>crashes stopped.

This would make tend to think that the function is indexing out-of-bounds.
When it's auto, it trashes important stuff.  When it's global, by chance it
trashes unimportant stuff.

Another possibility is different data alignment.