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From: daverh@ix.netcom.com (David Hathaway)
Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: Help!  Lockup on load.
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:35:30 GMT
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daverh@ix.netcom.com (David Hathaway) wrote:


>HELP!!!  I have the following code in my program:

>        enum
>        {
>        SPRITE1,
>        SPRITE2,
>        SPRITE3,
>        SPRITE4,
>        SPRITE5,
>        SPRITE6,
>        SPRITE7,
>        SPRITE8,
>        //SPRITE9,

>        NUMBER_OF_SPRITES
>        };

>        unsigned long TIM_ADDRESS[NUMBER_OF_SPRITES];


>Everything works fine UNTIL I uncomment SPRITE9, then the program no
>longer loads.  It downloads to the Yaroze but never starts up.  I have
>a printf as the first line of code in my program, but it never shows
>up on my PC:

>   printf("Starting program.\n");



>Anyone have any ideas?  This is a very strange bug.  I've been trying
>to debug it, but I can't seem to get the debugger working either
>(packet errors).

>Thanks,
>        Dave


>p.s. I also tried using #DEFINEs instead of enums and got the same
>results.



I figured it out myself by comparing a 'good' version of my program's
mapfile with a 'bad' version.  In the 'good' version the array wasn't
listed at all.  In the 'bad' version it was put in a section called
"COMMON".  Why did the compiler/linker do this just because I added
elements to the array, I just don't know.  The 'fix' for this problem
is to simply make the array static.
	Dave