From: nikki AT gameboutique DOT co (nikki)
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Subject: Re: boo hoo. my code crashes.
Date: 19 Feb 1997 21:11:11 GMT
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> Allright, I tested the code, and it works fine for me. So it probably
> only crashes in a larger context (a big program?). A possible stack
> overflow? See if increasing stack size might help.

yeh it was overflowing the stack and just crashing out big time :)
thanks to everyone who helped, i went for a big fat malloc in the end
and that seems to have solved the problem ok.

regards,
nik


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Graham Tootell           
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