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From: broeker AT I_should_put_my_domain_in_etc_NNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN (Hans-Bernhard Broeker)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Librgx and g++ apps segfault under Linux
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Date: 5 Aug 1996 12:44:38 GMT
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Ed Doolittle (dolittle AT weniac DOT math DOT toronto DOT edu) wrote: 
> I've been writing some basic graphics programs under Linux 2.0 using
> g++ and libgrx (the Linux port of the djgpp graphics library).
[...]
> Furthermore, the example program cliptest from the Grx package
> compiled with gcc works fine, but when compiled with g++ it
> segfaults on exit, which leads me to believe that there is a problem
> in the interaction between libgrx and g++.

Could well be that bad, but well known bug of g++ (and only g++, not
gcc) not correctly handling packed structures. To get closer to it,
could you (Ed Doolittle, that is) please debug the programs at least
to that extent that you find out what kind of instructions are
actually crashing? 

Hans-Bernhard Broeker (Aachen, Germany)