From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: a rather strange error with global variables...
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:09:59 -0700
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Paul Byrne wrote:

> I've been getting some unusual errors with a program I'm writing.  I
> was
> writing temporary code to help test some new classes.  I included the
> following global variables ...
> and everything worked fine.  However, simply changing the order ...
> causes problems.  Everything compiles fine.  Running produces a
> SIGSEGV.
> Further playing with the order produces a range of ugly errors.

You're going to have to give us more information.  Where is it crashing?
Have you debugged it?

Likely you're overrunning a buffer, which, with the previous order, just
happens to allow the pointer to hit the next buffer, and so doesn't
cause a crash in one order, but does cause one in another.

As for "range of ugly errors," no one can help you unless you tell us
what those errors are.

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