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From: kernco AT earlham DOT edu (Colin Kern)
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Subject: Re: Strange runtime error
Date: 9 Feb 2004 16:09:00 -0800
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message news:<uvfmgu7fl DOT fsf AT elta DOT co DOT il>...
> > From: kernco AT earlham DOT edu (Colin Kern)
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> > Date: 8 Feb 2004 17:29:35 -0800
> > 
> > Two of my projects has succumbed to a strange error in which my
> > program compiles with no errors or warnings (even with pedantic) and
> > then crashes on the first line, regardless of what the first line is. 
> > GDB can tell me nothing, the backtrace is simply:
> > #0 xxxxxxxxxx in main () at program.cpp:13
> > #1 xxxxxxxxxx in ___crt1_startup ()
> 
> The full crash message printed when the program goes down (outside the
> debugger), complete with registers' dump and everything else, would be
> useful here.  Please consider posting it if the guess below doesn't
> solve the problem.
> 
> One situation where such crashes happen is when you have a very large
> automatic array in your main function, so large that it blows up the
> 512MB stack.  See section 15.9 of the DJGPP FAQ for more details.

Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV
Stack Fault at eip=0000163d
eax=00000000 ebx=00000298 ecx=00000000 edx=00000000 esi=00000054
edi=0009f4d4
ebp=0011f4b0 esp=ffedf460 program=C:\C__~1\MANDEL~1\FRAC.EXE
cs: sel=01a7  base=02980000  limit=0012ffff
ds: sel=01af  base=02980000  limit=0012ffff
es: sel=01af  base=02980000  limit=0012ffff
fs: sel=017f  base=000056c0  limit=0000ffff
gs: sel=01bf  base=00000000  limit=0010ffff
ss: sel=01af  base=02980000  limit=0012ffff
App stack: [0011f4d4..0009f4d4]  Exceptn stack: [0009f42c..0009d4ec]

Is that 512MB or 512KB?  It's quite possible I have used more than
512KB of static variables in my program, but impossible that I
surpassed 512MB.