Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:44:28 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: pointers and errors make cephaler go crazy
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On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Endlisnis wrote:

>     But, using array's instead of pointers shouldn't produce SIGILL.

There's nothing an ingenious bug couldn't produce ;-).

> Some things that could cause SIGILL would be screwing around with
> the stack in a function

Exactly.  And wrong usage of arrays could easily screw up the return
address on the stack (e.g., by writing beyond the array end).