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In article <1992Nov16.073159.14009@ils.nwu.edu> chauhan@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Amrit Chauhan) writes:
>
>/* prob8.c -- Programming Exercises (Chapter VI, Problem 8) */
>#include <stdio.h>
>#define MAX 7
>main()
>{
>        int i, integers[MAX];

integers[7];	allocates ONLY 7 ints, that is 0 to 6!!

> 
>        printf("Please enter 8 integer values below:\n");
> 
>        for(i = 0; i <= MAX; i++)
>                scanf("%d", &integers[i]);

here you read 8 values in, 0-7.

>        printf("Right back at you...\n");
> 
>        for(i = MAX; i >= 0; i--)
>                printf("%d ", integers[i]);
>        printf("\n");
>}

You allocate 7 integers 0-6 and use 8, 0-7 !!!!

>Well, this one crashes...in very weird ways.

If you overwrite things that you haven't allocated, funny things will
start to happen :-)

From what you say you have overwritten the stack, so upon exit it jumps
somewhere and tries to do ....

>Amrit
>achauhan@math.macalstr.edu


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