Date: Thu, 6 Oct 94 10:53:19 EDT
From: peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To: hodder AT geop DOT ubc DOT ca
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Very strange behaviour! Please help!
Reply-To: babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu

> it works! And it works as I wanted it to. If I comment out the
> printf... stuff then it will compile the same but crash. (SomeFunction()
> doesn't print anything out.) This seems almost unbelievable - I can't imagine
> why having a printf call can affect anything!

One thing printf does on the first call is allocate some memory.  So if you
have a memory corruption problem, using printf may move the problem to a less
obvious location.