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> From: "John Hanley" <jdhanley AT telusplanet DOT net>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:16:00 -0600
> 
> My DOS program compiled under DJGPP seems to be hanging.  When I try running
> it, it doesn't even get to the first printf statement in the program.  When
> I debugged it with gdb, the first time it stepped through ok, the second
> time I set a breakpoint for line 1 and it didn't even make it there.  How
> does  a program hang before it gets to the first line of the program?

One possibility is that you have large automatic arrays or structures
that overflow the run-time stack.

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