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From: mcw@ukc.ac.uk (M.C.Wheadon)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Fortran-XGKS Problems
Keywords: XGKS, Fortran, libfxgks.a
Message-ID: <4877@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Jun 90 09:12:10 GMT
References: <1718@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>
Reply-To: mcw@ukc.ac.uk (Mark Wheadon)
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <1718@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> adam@ncifcrf.gov writes:
 >*** Segmentation Violation = Signal 11 code 3
 >Here's a traceback, from the 'star' demo program (the local program
 >adb star
 >core file = core -- program ``star''
 >SIGIOT 6: abort
 >$c
 >_kill(?)
 >_abort() + 6
 >_sigdie(?)
 >__DYNAMIC(0xb,0x3,0xdffff9fc,0x0) + 12a
 >__sigtramp() + 2a
 >_strcmp(0x0,0x600ba) + c

	 ^^^^

There's your problem - gopwk is calling strcmp with first argument == NULL.
This happens to work on a VAX, but it's fatal on a Sun.

 >_gopwk_(0x6000c,0x60014,0x60018) + 48
 >_MAIN_() + 6e
 >_main(0x1,0xdffffadc,0xdffffae4) + 5a

Cheers
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