06-22-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Corona688
Code lines don't even exist after the program is compiled, so it causing crashes during debugging doesn't make much sense. If you're exceeding some limit, the compiler should warn you.
Yea, it sounds completely right!.. you take-off from me one more chance to find a problem
- just kidding..
Appreciate you oppinion!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by
Corona688
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What you're describing sounds more like a buffer overflow. Writing past the end of an array on the stack can mangle other local variables, causing behavior like you describe. Moving around lines of code may change what gets mangled or at least when, changing the behavior.
It is what I thinkling about from first time that problem appeared - writing over the line size or to some undeclared array's element, but, revuewing over and over again the processing flow could not catch anything like that!
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