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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Probably a bug?
Date: 29 Mar 2002 19:23:07 GMT
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MaxEd <max-savenkov AT mtu-net DOT ru> wrote:
> I met this problem several other times and it's not in bug
> list. Probably this is not a bug at all, but then I should be doing
> something wrong. I wish I know what.

It's a bug, but one that is almost certainly in your code, not in the
compiler.  It's almost alway a case of writing past the end of some
array that causes this.  I.e. strcpy() with the destination pointer
not initialized to point to a sufficiently large region of memory.



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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.