Re: Strange structure initialization problem.
On 09.02.15 23.38, Ian Collins wrote:
You undoubtedly have either 1) a compiler bug or 2) a memory corrupting
bug in your code.
Case 2) would appear more likely,
Normally I would fully agree. But he is using /Borland/ C. That make 2)
more probably, so maybe it can beat 1).
I have really seen wired things with Borland C/C++ compilers. E.g. a
value is assigned to register X and to read from register Y a few
instructions later, of course without a matching MOV in between. Most of
these Bugs were related to some optimization option, but not all of
them. And it was not restricted to one compiler version or platform. I
had this kind of problems with BCOS2 as well as with different Windows
Versions.
so either change your compile options
to use read only literals or set a break-point on writes to those
locations. If you can't do both of those, that's yet another reason to
upgrade!
Fortunately even very old Borland debuggers can use hardware data
points. So observing memory should not be a serious problem.
Marcel
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