argv getting corrupt because of getenv issues

Hello,

Trying to debug a weird problem here. When I run this program many times over, at some point argc gets corrupted and I get the error that enough number of arguments are not provided. It definitely seems to have something to do with the env. variable being set and used because the previous version of this code did not have that variable and did not have this problem. I am running this on linux on a powerpc based hardware. stdlib.h is included.

My condition is that if this env variable does not exist at all or if

Here is the relevant portion of the program I am trying to debug. .

int main(int argc, char** argv) {

char* status = 0;

{ fprintf(stderr, " Not enough arguments.-n"); fflush(stderr); }

while(1) {

status = getenv("TIMERSTATUS"); if((status == 0) ((status != 0) && (atoi(status) != 1))) { } else {

}

}

In MOST cases, the program runs just fine. But after about 10-15 times of running repeatedly, i will always get the error that there are not enough arguments. If I reboot the entire board that will restart the kernel and everything, all is well once again until we get into that restarting many times scenario.

Any ideas of where I might start to debug this?

Thanks much, Vinod