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From: diamond@jit345.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Wierd core dump on sparc-1
Message-ID: <1991Jan24.061653.22785@tkou02.enet.dec.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 06:16:53 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.232300.3698@lavaca.uh.edu>
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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?

Probably incorrect initializations of automatic variables in main().
Possibly an insufficient stack limit or other similar problem.

>I'm about to run it
>interpreted under saber-c, we'll see what that shows (and how long
>it takes).

Good idea.  Why didn't you try it before posting?
--
Norman Diamond       diamond@tkov50.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.