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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 10:04:01 +0200
From: Tim Van Holder <tim DOT vanholder AT falconsoft DOT be>
Organization: Anubex N.V.
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, neo_1061 AT hotmail DOT com
Subject: Re: Peculiar behavior of program.
References: <3b2efaa3 DOT 496489 AT news DOT primus DOT ca>
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Graaagh the Mighty wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to debug some kind of memory management problem.
> Problem is, it refuses to give proper traceback information. In
> Windows, it causes a reboot, which SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN in protected
> mode. In DOS, it prints a general protection fault message, but no
> "call frame traceback EIPs" which is decidedly odd. FSDB segfaults
> itself on running the program; RHIDE simply silently exits to DOS on
> attempting to so much as step into the program. When I modified the
> code so that at certain checkpoints it would open a file, append some
> info to the file, and close it again (so if it died between
> checkpoints the file wouldn't be left truncated, but would be
> readable), and of course the program began to work...*sigh*

This is all very interesting, but it would be a LOT more informative
and helpful if you posted the code that resulted in the broken
behaviour.

-- 
Tim Van Holder - Anubex N.V.
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