Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 18:38:07 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Shaun Jackman <sjackman AT rogers DOT wave DOT ca>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: strtod() crashes on the call strtod("$.", &endp);
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On Sun, 3 May 1998, Shaun Jackman wrote:

> I have a program that is crashing within strtod(). I found it unusual
> that it would crash during a library function call. Maybe you somebody
> out there can shed some light on this.
[snip]
> Unfortunately, it crashes.
> I ran gdb on it, and after the crash got a stack frame back-trace.
> The result was:

It is meaningless to post a debugger backtrace for a program whose source 
is not available.  Please post the shortest source that reproduces this 
problem.

My first guess would be that your endp variable points into the great 
void (no offence).  But without the source, I cannot really be smart.