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From:	"Alex Oleynikov" <alex AT compuweigh DOT com>
To:	<djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Strange RHIDE behavior
Date:	Thu, 3 Jan 2002 16:23:08 -0500
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Hello

Could somebody explain me the strange things that I found in RHIDE (or GCC)?

The story is: any function, which has an argument named "search_cond"
crashes when I try to step into it while debugging the application. The PC
screen just goes black with a blinking cursor and I have to reboot it again.
The strange thing is that stepping over the function works fine so does the
executable, when it is run from DOS prompt.
I tried all kinds of tricks to figure out where the problem hides, but only
renaming the argument in the function's definition from "search_cond" to
anything else helps the situation. I always used to think that compilers do
not care how the function's arguments are named as soon as they have correct
types, but apparently it is not so.

Is there a hidden or system variable in DJGPP that has the same name and
confuses the debugger?

Thanks,
Alex

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