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Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2000 08:40:55 +0500 (MVT)
From: Prashant TR <prashant_tr AT yahoo DOT com>
To: Chris Underwood <underwoodc AT logica DOT nospam DOT com>
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Subject: Re: a bug?
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On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Chris Underwood wrote:

> Missing an arguement can cause crashes in some compilers, and although I
> haven't tried it with DJGPP, I expect it to be no different. You should be
> getting a warning about format specifiers though (assuming you have warnings
> switched on).

It crashes mostly on those 16-bit compilers which have no protection.
Generally, it is due to lack of stack space. But I haven't seen this
happenning with DJGPP, although anturally, it does return garbage values.

Prashant
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