Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 08:31:08 +0300
From: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: It's a bug?

grotheer AT PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Olaf Grotheer) writes:

> I have written a bit of source code that will cause the compiler to die
> with a message "Segmentation violation in pointer 0x00000009 at d8:585a9",
> when I try   gcc -c test.cpp -o test.o 
> [snip]
> I get this kind of crash quite regularly. The only way I have of locating an
> error of this kind is quite cubersome: I comment out parts of my code in order
> to figure out which line is offensive... 

To make GCC diagnostics better, invoke it with -Wall switch.

> difference, I got a 486 and use MS-DOS. My version of DJGPP is
> djdev112, bnu24, gas23, gpp260, lgp260, gcc260

GCC 2.6.0 is known to die on incorrect C++ source files.  Get and install the
latest DJGPP version which includes GCC 2.6.3.