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From: "pal" <pal_news@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Ten bytes bug in gcc?
Date: 14 Aug 2001 11:09:02 GMT
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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I came across the following weird thing. I think I remember seeing it
mentionned on the ng, but I can't find back where. Here's the thing: the
following program crashes.

#include <stdio.h>
unsigned char test[10];
int main(){
	printf("Ok.\n");
	exit(0);
}

It seems to be related to the size of the array, as changing it can make
the thing work. Adding another declaration (eg "unsigned char test2[2];")
does not prevent the crash (I tried this because i suspected something to
do with alignment). Does anybody understand this?

note: compiled with
gcc -Wall -Werror -W Test.c -O -Xlinker -Ttext -Xlinker 80090000 -o
Test.pxe


pal