fish@ASSWIPE ~/fishtest
$ cat fish.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

void foo ()
{
    char a[15000];
    a[0]=0;
    printf("String length=%d\n",strlen(a));
    memset( &a[0], 0xCD, 13371 );
    a[13371]=0;
    printf("String length=%d\n",strlen(a));
}

int main ( int argc, char* argv[] )
{
    foo();
    return 0;
}

fish@ASSWIPE ~/fishtest
$ gcc -march=i686 -g -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -c fish.c -Wa,-adhln=fish.c.listi
ng.txt

fish@ASSWIPE ~/fishtest
$ gcc -march=i686 -g -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o fish.exe fish.o

fish@ASSWIPE ~/fishtest
$ fish
String length=2

fish@ASSWIPE ~/fishtest
$ gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-cygwin/3.2/specs
Configured with: /netrel/src/gcc-3.2-3/configure --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,ja
va --enable-libgcj --enable-threads=posix --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --with
out-included-gettext --enable-interpreter --disable-sjlj-exceptions --disable-ve
rsion-specific-runtime-libs --enable-shared --build=i686-pc-linux --host=i686-pc
-cygwin --target=i686-pc-cygwin --enable-haifa --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr
--sysconfdir=/etc --libdir=/usr/lib --includedir=/nonexistent/include --libexecd
ir=/usr/sbin
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2 20020927 (prerelease)

fish@ASSWIPE ~/fishtest
$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 ASSWIPE 1.3.16(0.65/3/2) 2002-11-22 22:18 i686 unknown

fish@ASSWIPE ~/fishtest
$