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From: derge@paris.crd.ge.com (Gillmer J. Derge)
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Subject: Re: Wierd core dump on sparc-1
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Date: 24 Jan 91 20:36:59 GMT
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In article <1991Jan23.232300.3698@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu
("J. Eric Townsend") writes:

>I've got a rather simple little C program that dumps core at 
>the first "{" of main() (according to gdb and saber).
>Any hints as to what could be causing this?

	I've seen this happen as a result of declaring a large, global
array.  In my case it was a 30 by 30 by 100 by 40 array of char, and I
fixed it by allocating the memory at run time.  An explanation, I can
not give, but this may work as a solution.

		Gill Derge
		derge@crd.ge.com