Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 08:35:56 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> From: "Maverick" <vhd AT chello DOT at>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 22:17:02 GMT
> 
> I am stuck on this error... it doesn't really concern me, since I have now
> been trying to recreate the error once again (for half the day that is) and
> I wasn't able to. Funny is, I have not even touched the source code but
> recompiled and relinked it. It still works all fine... I made a change a few
> minutes ago to fill an array with zeros before working with it, so it
> doesn't hold garbage. My program was failing when working on that array...
> but maybe that's was my problem. The array would normally be a huge or far
> array, since it breaks the 65k limit I am used to... but since it compiled
> without any errors I thought it may be okay under DJGPP. Could this cause an
> error like I mentioned?

How large (in KBytes) is that array?

If it is an automatic array, and it is larger than 512KB, you may be
overflowing the stack (see section 15.9 of the FAQ).  However, the
crash message doesn't seem to show any symptoms of such problems, so I
don't think this is your problem.