From: Jason Green <news AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Symify crash
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:49:09 +0100
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> I suspect some uninitialized variable in the code which reads symbols,
> before they are sorted.

I've no idea if this has anything to do with the problem discussed,
but the following code from syms.c lines 362-365 does indeed show some
data which is failing to be initialised:

  syms = (SymNode *)malloc(num_syms * sizeof(SymNode));
  memset(syms, num_syms * sizeof(SymNode), 0);
  files = (FileNode *)malloc(num_files * sizeof(FileNode));
  memset(files, num_files * sizeof(FileNode), 0);