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From: mictali AT netcom DOT com (Jere McDevitt)
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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 16:40:31 GMT
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byers AT cs DOT utk DOT edu wrote:
:   Okay.. I'm pretty stupid.  I'm sorry about that last message I sent.  It
: appears that the C array was too small.  It works now.  I don't know why that
: would cause the problem it did.  I expected a segmentation fault but it was
: just me, not the compiler. :)

: Sorry,
: Stephen Byers

One reason it could have happened is that if the arrays and the index
variable i were all stack variables (local to the procedure) then
overwriting the end of the array would merely overwrite the next variable on
the stack but not cause a segment violation because the next space on the
stack is still available.

Going to far could have caused other problems if the return address of the
routine that called this one was overwritten.

Jere McDevitt