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Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 10:28:30 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On 24 Feb 2002, Michael Yuen wrote:

> "exiting due to signal SIGSEGV"
> 
> I believe this message is telling me something about attempting to access 
> an invalid pointer or something.

Yes.

> This program i'm writing has a lot of global variables...can this be 
> causing any problems?

No.  You should look for a bug in the program; having a lot of variables 
is not such a bug.

Section 12.2 of the DJGPP FAQ list explains how to start the debugging 
given the information printed when the program crashes.