X-Authentication-Warning:	delorie.com: mailnull set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f
From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Probably a bug?
Date:	29 Mar 2002 19:23:07 GMT
Organization:	Aachen University of Technology (RWTH)
Lines:	15
Message-ID:	<a82eur$5uh$1@nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
References:	<000901c1d705$54851260$7864bcd4 AT rcomputer>
NNTP-Posting-Host:	acp3bf.physik.rwth-aachen.de
X-Trace:	nets3.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE 1017429787 6097 137.226.32.75 (29 Mar 2002 19:23:07 GMT)
X-Complaints-To:	abuse AT rwth-aachen DOT de
NNTP-Posting-Date:	29 Mar 2002 19:23:07 GMT
Originator:	broeker@
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway:	from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

MaxEd <max-savenkov AT mtu-net DOT ru> wrote:
> I met this problem several other times and it's not in bug
> list. Probably this is not a bug at all, but then I should be doing
> something wrong. I wish I know what.

It's a bug, but one that is almost certainly in your code, not in the
compiler.  It's almost alway a case of writing past the end of some
array that causes this.  I.e. strcpy() with the destination pointer
not initialized to point to a sufficiently large region of memory.



-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

- Raw text -