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From: ghelms@sgi.com (Gretchen Helms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Program dieing immediatly upon execution
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.230351.28413@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 9 Nov 90 23:03:51 GMT
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("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS361 x42854") writes:
>    I am trying to port some software that was writen for a 3130 to a 4D/VGX.
>Everything compiles ok, however when I try to execute it, I immediatly get
>a segmentation violation.  Using edge to debug it, I found it dies upon the
>very first executable line.  The line was originally ginit();  I tried 
>changing this to winopen, but that didn't change things.

One thing that changed from 3.2 to 3.3 was that
if you had "winopen();" in your program, it would
die under 3.3.  Seems 3.3 prefers that you use 
"winopen("");" instead.  One thing you definitely 
want to check is to make sure that your winopen
has either a name like winopen("Strange problem");
or else is called like winopen("");

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    						G. "Murdock" Helms
The further on the edge, 			Silicon Graphics
The hotter the intensity.			Product Support Engineer
						ghelms@csd.sgi.com