Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:26:57 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: Strange behavior of compiler.
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Graaagh the Mighty wrote:

> There was
> a bug in one of the debugging bits I added that would in fact have
> jumped into never-never land -- *if* "bar" had ever been reached. So
> why weren't the call frame traceback EIPs more like:
> 
>   0x01fc0000   0x1fc0000
>   0x00f00ba7   _bar+42, line 666 of bwlsm.c
>   0x0000178b   _main+275, line 195 of bwlsm.c
>   0x00057b7a   ___crt1_startup+174
> 
> even with no aggressive optimizations?

I can think about any number of possible bugs which could scrogg the 
stack so badly that SYMIFY would dance a tarantella instead of producing
a traceback.  If you want a real answer, please tell a bit more about the
bug you discovered, and maybe even show a short code fragment with the
buggy code. 

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