From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: break - problem
Date: 27 Aug 2003 11:29:59 GMT
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Sterten <sterten AT aol DOT com> wrote:

> 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.

I'm quite sure that this was a false conclusion.  GPF's don't really depend
on the size, but rather on the actual *content* of your program.  I.e.
you just brushed an actual bug under the carpet instead of fixing it.

You should debug your program for real (as in: run it inside a
debugger), and try to reproduce the crash, to see where exactly it's
coming from.  Also check out the FAQ about how to intrepret crash
symptoms.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.