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From: myskin AT inp DOT nsk DOT su (Vyacheslav O. Myskin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Not optimizing=Crash???
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1996 04:53:31 GMT
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a920101 AT zipi DOT fi DOT upm DOT es wrote:

>I've debugged the generated code, and I've found that the problem is GCC
>not passing the correct arguments to some functions. I call the function
>with the correct parameter (made sure of this), but it gets a wild one!

Maybe this will help somehow...
Some day I've compiled a program containing

	movedata(_my_ds(), ...);

without any optimization. _my_ds() is inline function; the compiler
did not expand it properly and the linker did not report any error,
using some garbage for _my_ds symbol value. The result was
catastrophic (of course): the progam jumped in the middle of some
function  and crashed instead of pushing %ds on the stack. Maybe this
happened because I had not put some nesessary switches on the command
line. But everything went OK when using -O.

Best wishes,
V. Myskin