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From: empty AT sans DOT vuw DOT ac DOT nz (Malcolm Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Strange crashes in g++
Date: 21 Jul 1995 08:40:07 GMT
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Erik Max Francis (max AT alcyone DOT darkside DOT com) wrote:
: If I'm compiling a C++ program with gcc (in DJGPP 1.12), and if I'm 
: getting a lot of errors, oftentimes I'll see a crash within g++.  When 
: the crash occurs (if it does), it usually appears to be a segmentation 
: fault.

The compiler was written not expecting unknown symbols, obviously when it 
comes across a symbol that isn't in one of it's tables it comes up with 
an access to memory that is outside the table, hence the segmentation 
fault. It isn't a crash as such, just caused by the compiler looking for 
info about a symbol where there is none.
I have no idea whether it would be possible to remove these, or whether 
it is worth doing.

Malcolm