From: "Alberto Chessa" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Help POSTED BEFORE Date: 17 Jun 1998 07:28:38 GMT Organization: Telecom Italia Net Message-ID: <01bd99c1$d4f7f640$92c809c0@chessa> References: <1998061618464300 DOT OAA14797 AT ladder03 DOT news DOT aol DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: a-mi23-62.tin.it Lines: 19 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk SRotherSN wrote in article <1998061618464300 DOT OAA14797 AT ladder03 DOT news DOT aol DOT com>... > I posted a few days ago about some help with djpgg and wondering if my machine > could handle it.. > > A few asked for some more info so here goes... > > this is the response to gcc -o hello.c -o hello.exe > exiting due to signal sigsegv > page fault at eip=0000b9ea, error=00006 [...] It seem you use bad pointers. Have You just try a debugger ? And symify ? Symify has to be executed just after the crash (when the stack dump still on the screen) and will report the symbolic entries of your stack traceback. You shoud be able to identify the offending routine: symify (I discover symify just few day ago! -- thanks to newsgroup)