Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:13:58 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: GP fault on a new -- why?
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Damon Casale wrote:

> The routine I had written which exhibited this problem was a recursive
> add-to-linked-list function.

Problems with deeply recursive functions are indeed one of the possible 
causes for crashes inside CWSDPMI.  If your recursion is so deep that it 
overflows the 512K stack, you can overwrite crucial data structures in 
the DJGPP exception handlers and get such crashes.