From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP inconsistencies?
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 13:01:56 -0800
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Marc Singer wrote:

> My hunch is that load_datafile is clobbering the stack.  The char*
> changes the depth of the stack and could hide the problem.  Without
> all of the code, I cannot say more.  You could try debugging the app
> and see if str changes after the load_file call.

The problem was that the original poster does not understand that C and C++
are not the same thing.  Probably as a fault of using Turbo C++ (which
always compiles C++ unless you specifically tell it not to).

Besides, stack clobbering would cause runtime errors, whereas his complaint
was about compilation errors.

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