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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 13:18:09 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
X-Sender: eliz AT is
To: matthew DOT krause AT juno DOT com
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: GPFs only when running without RHIDE
In-Reply-To: <19981018.204538.4654.0.matthew.krause@juno.com>
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 matthew DOT krause AT juno DOT com wrote:

> Now I restart Rhide to look over the code. It looks fine, so I try
> running it again. And now it works!!??!! Obviously, I need to distribute
> this program without Rhide. Any ideas what is causing this foul-up??

It's just a bug, only complicated by the fact that when your program
runs on top of RHIDE, the bug doesn't reveal itself.  Usually, such
bugs are due to use of uninitialized memory (lower memory addresses
tend to have garbage in them as opposed to higher addresses which are
mostly zeroed out).

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