From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Program Crash
Date: 9 Sep 1999 08:33:16 GMT
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Josh Reed (obitus AT uswest DOT net) wrote:
: I have a program that I compiled with DJGPP that dies
: half-way through execution.  I used gdb on it and here is
: what it said:
: Program recieved signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
: 0x1600 in scan (path=Cannot access memory at address
: 0x2a2e2a64.) at audit.cpp:43

: Line 43 in Audit.cpp:
: if (((DTA.ff_attrib >= 16) && (DTA.ff_attrib <= 31)) ||
: (DTA.ff_attrib >= 48))

: Any help will be appreciated.

: Josh

: PS Tell me if you want me to post the whole function.  It is
: a recursive function that is suppose to find any file
: matching the search string specified and display the
: filename and path to the screen.  Line 43 is testing whether
: the file found is a directory that it can look in.

"0x2a2e2a64" looks very much a part of a search expression. Translated to
ASCII it's "*.*d". Looks familiar?

It's likely that you overflowed your stack. This is of course just 
speculation.


As for file finding, why not install findutils and use "find /some/dir
-type f -iname 'd*' -print"?.


Right,

							MartinS