From: "John S. Fine" <johnfine AT erols DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Symify output is silly ... help please! Thanks!
Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 15:27:39 -0400
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^Hawk^ wrote:

> Thanks to all who have answered my mail! :-) It was a memory
> allocation fault on my site for a char*.
> 
> But the output of symify is still silly ... because I haven't used
> some optimisation switches and only the -g switch for the compiler is

Sounds like you didn't really read all those answers.  The output
of symify told you correctly that your program died on the
closing brace of a routine.  It died there because you had
clobbered the ebp register.  There is code inserted by the compiler
at the end of a routine to restore registers and exit.  For a
crash that occurs in that code, what better line number would
you like the compiler to have chosen than the line number of the
closing brace.

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