Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:23:31 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nicholas Marrone <nmarrone AT smartlink DOT net>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: SIGSERV and symify
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On Mon, 22 Apr 1996, Nicholas Marrone wrote:

> previously selected or a different one, the program crashes with a
> SIGSEV. Using symify, it points to the opening line of the function
> that is called that defines how the function is called (I don't know
> what this line is called). What could this possible mean, since symify
> points to the line that causes the crash?

Maybe you are overwriting the return address (by e.g. writing beyond 
limits of an array that is passed to that function)?

If that doesn't help, post the function and the stack trace printed when 
SIGSEGV hits.

> 	On another note, could someone point me to some readable reference
> material concerning how to use MAKE? I am very tired of having to
> compile the whole thing every time.

Did you try to read the on-line docs that come with Make?  Quite 
readable, I'd say, if you take some time to read it carefully.