Jeff Sturm wrote: > Shouldn't, no. My problem is that I don't have a viable debugger. I did > try one test on a bonafide Windows machine with the same results though. You can get GDB 5.2.1 for MinGW from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/ and Microsoft's WinDbg debugger from: http://www.microsoft.com/ddk/debugging/ (though it won't understand GCC's symbolic debugging information, it's far more robust than GDB at least as of now) Ranjit. -- Ranjit Mathew Email: rmathew AT hotmail DOT com Bangalore, INDIA. Web: http://ranjitmathew.tripod.com/