enggakshat wrote: > i m a newbie to gcc and i have been making a project lately > on netwoking. > yesterday i encountered a starnge situation wherein it so > happened that d > program that i made was not sequentially executed.any ideas > so as to why? Uh huh, it can't /possibly/ be your buggy code. The only explanation is that the the compiler is not executing statements sequentially. Or could it be that it's actually throwing away the stuff between /* and */ ? > ask for the code details if required What for? It's perfect; that's not where the problem is.