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From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein)
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Subject: Re: Spell core dumps
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Date: 10 Sep 90 14:09:27 GMT
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Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 10-Sep-90 Re: Spell core dumps
Graham Dumpleton@otc.otc (680)

> However when I compiled that object with debugging in an attempt to find
> out what the problem was, the problem went away. I therefore installed
> the object compiled with debugging in it and have since forgotten about
> it.

Possibly the buggy version was compiled with -O?  On Suns, -O is
notorious for causing core dumps...