From:	SPAMGUARDriker AT pipcom DOT com (Matt Riker)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Allegro SIGSEGV Error / keyboard_hooks
Date:	Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:16:44 -0500
Organization:	Riker Software
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In article <OnmcdiFL9GA DOT 163 AT upnetnews02 DOT moswest DOT msn DOT net>, Not DOT given AT out 
says:

 > Unusual error. I think the error stands for SIGnal - SEGment Violation. Did you
 > remember to call allegro_init() before hand? If you did, try loading a debugger
 > (I prefer rhide for it's ease of use), re-compile allegro with debugging (make
 > DEBUGMODE=y clean install). This may delete your utils, demo game, etc. so you
 > will need to recompile them. "Trace into" the entire program up to the error,
 > and figure out what is wrong that way - you can see which line is causing the
 > crash.

I managed to figure out what the problem was by trial and error.  My 
set_mouse_sprite() function was causing the problem.  I made some 
adjustment to the palette it was loading before hand, and God knows why, 
but the problem went away.  Don't computers suck?

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