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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 20:43:23 +0200
From: Peter Claessens <peter DOT claessens AT psy DOT kuleuven DOT ac DOT be>
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Subject: Re: malloc/free blues
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Additional information:

When I add a trivial output statement  (printf("test\n");) to malloc.c, 
in this case in the malloc function, line 112, the prog crashes even 
before reaching the main function.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:09:04 +0200
>>From: Peter Claessens <peter DOT claessens AT psy DOT kuleuven DOT ac DOT be>
>>    
>>
>>I thought it would be a good idea to set the #DEBUG preprocessor symbol 
>>in that file to 1. Apparently it wasn't.  I get the ugliest crashes at 
>>startup of the program, apparently based on a segmentation fault (at 
>>least that's what GDB says) in the beginning of the program, before any 
>>output is sent to the screen, resulting in blue screens etc in win98. I 
>>guess the debugging code isn't meant to run under windows? Or is it 
>>really indicating something about my program being very wrong?
>>    
>>
>
>The latter, I guess.  Can you post a SYMIFY'ed traceback of such a
>crash?  Also, what happens if you boot into plain DOS (by holding F8
>or F2 during startup), and then run your program? does it crash, and
>if so, what gets printed when it does?
>
>(To run a DJGPP program on plain DOS, you will need to make sure you
>have CWSDPMI installed.)
>  
>