Message-ID: <320B6F20.62A8@cs.pdx.edu>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 17:02:24 +0000
From: Ian Romanick <idr AT cs DOT pdx DOT edu>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Crash before main strangeness.
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I have just run into something REALLY strange.  For some reason, my 
program crashes before it even gets to main().  I don't have any 
constructors or anything, so all that's being run is crt startup code.  
Further, if I comment out a certain line in one of my source files, it 
works just fine.  Note, that this line is NEVER executed.  In fact, my 
main() is just:

main()
{
	return 0;
}

I guess my only question is what on earth could possibly cause this?  
I've experimented with changing the link order, moving stuff around in 
the suspect function...just about everything I can think of, but I still 
crashes.  Here is the output:

Exiting due to signal SIGILL
Invalid Opcode at eip=00000000
eax=00000000 ebx=0004cc9e ecx=fffffff6 edx=00000024 esi=0000002d 
edi=0004cca7
ebp=0004cbf0 esp=0004cbe0 cs=00a7 ds=00af es=00af fs=0087 gs=00bf ss=00af
Call frame traceback EIPs:
  0x00000000   0
  0x000065f5   ___crt0_setup_arguments+137
  0x00004a54   ___crt1_startup+336


I would really appriciate any help.  Thanks.