Syslog fixes a bug?

[Michael Wieher]

Hey,

I have a program that dies mysteriously.

If I use syslog() to attempt to write data and see where it dies, it
lives and works perfectly.

If I comment out the syslog() function call, the program crashes every time.

This is entirely reliable, have tested it 10 times commented +
uncommented.  It is a line of static text, ie:
syslog(LOG_INFO,"hello");

Why / how would this affect my program's execution?