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From: "Mark Wilson" <m.wilson@dial.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: Codewarrior works, GNU doesn't
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:04:03 -0000
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>I recently finished the first cut of the game I've been working on.  I did
>the programming using codewarrior and wanted to generate a version using
>GNU.  While the program compiles ok, when I run it I'm having all sorts of
>problems mostly with my program freezing up for no apparent reason.  I
>believe the problem to be with my use of global variables that are shared
>between the different C files.  In order to cut down on function parameters
>I made a bunch of my variables global.  When I change these to be passed
>parameters the program seems to work correctly.  The problem is I have a
lot
>of global variables and I don't want to change all of them since this works
>in codewarrior.  Anyone else run into a similar problem or have an idea as
>to what's wrong?


I had the same problem, so I turned all the warnings on in GNU and it came
up with a whole stack of things that Codewarrior didn't seem concerned
about. Once I sorted those out it worked fine.

Mark