[comp.sys.amiga.tech] Strange software failure

fwp@unccvax.UUCP (Rick Pasotto) (07/20/88)

Well at least it's strange to me since I don't understand it.

Anyway, I am trying to run the cref program on Fish Disk 103 and it keeps
guru'ing on me.  What's strange is that I added two lines to the program
in an attempt to figure out what was going wrong.  Those two lines were:

printf("starting to print xref\n");
gets(input);

And of course no guru!  After several consistent behaviours depending only on
which version I ran I tried the version with the gets() but instead of waiting
for the printf() hit the return as quickly as I could after the return that
executed the command and -- guru!

The guru number is 3.00203750 and the address is that of the Dillon/Drew shell
that I am running.  I am also running Dmouse, VirusX, ARP, and a clock.

BTW, since the program calls a recursive routine to print out the btree it has
created I tried setting the stack to 100000 to no avail.  (Of course, since it
works with the pause this couldn't be the problem could it?)

Does anyone use this program successfully?  Is my machine (A1000 w/2mg ASDG)
weird?  Any plausible wild guess as to what's going on would be appreciated!

Rick Pasotto
mcnc!unccvax!fwp