Exception: STATUS_PRIVILEGED_INSTRUCTION occurs before main is executed.

[Steven O'Brien]

Bruce Adams wrote:
> I have lately been having real problems with vanilla gcc 3.2
> generating executables that crash. 
<snip>
> The simplest way to reproduce the problem is to have a main function
> in a file with a .h of the same name as below.

Bruce I have tried your example code and it works fine for me:
Windows 2000 SP2,
cygwin-1.3.20-1,
gcc-3.2 20020927 (prerelease), 
binutils-2.13.90 20021118.

Maybe the problem is in your cygwin installation?

Steven

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