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From: sterten AT aol DOT com (Sterten)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Date: 27 Aug 2003 07:31:24 GMT
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Subject: Re: break - problem
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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>
>recently I have trouble to interrupt my GCC-compiled program.
>Sometimes it works,(pressing crtl+C or crtl+break)   but sometimes the
>Windows
>-desktop
>pops up and gives an error. (run in a DOS-window under Windows 98)
>Then the output files of that program are corrupted , so I better output to
>ramdrive and
>then reboot.
>
>what can be the reason and how can it be solved ?


this was a  general protection fault.
Apparantly it only occurs at a certain critical  size of the program.
Now I added some lines and it's gone.