Date:	Fri, 21 Oct 1994 08:00:36 -0500 (CDT)
From:	Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject:	Re: C++ crashes
To:	OKRA AT max DOT tiac DOT net
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization:	Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>  I just moved from C to C++ and I've been getting a lot of compiler 
>crashes.  I remember people talking about this before, but I had thought 
>it was fixed in the new release.  Anyway, I'm getting two kinds of
[...]
>the argument a reference variable), but I don't know what causes the 
>segmentation violation.  This is really annoying if I'm trying to _fix_ 
>the bug that _caused_ it - I don't know what/where the bug is! :(
I'm not sure if this is still true in 2.6.0, but I have found that the
compiler often crashes if I misspell a class name and then try to do something
with an object of that class.  This might not be the problem, though, as GCC
generally complains about that problem before going down in smoke.

--- Aaron Ucko (ucko AT vax1 DOT rockhurst DOT edu; finger for PGP public key) -=- httyp!
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Geek code 2.1 [finger hayden AT vax1 DOT mankato DOT msus DOT edu for explanation]: 
 GCS/M/S d(-) H s g+ p? !au a-- w+ v+ C++(+++)>++++ U-(S+)>++++ P+ L>++ 3(-) 
 E-(----) !N>++ K- W(--) M-(--) V(--) po-(--) Y+(++) t(+) !5 j R G tv--(-) 
 b+++ !D(--) B--(---) e>++++(*) u++(@) h!() f(+) r-(--)>+++ n+(-) y?

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