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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Wierd core dump on sparc-1
Message-ID: <14976@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 25 Jan 91 17:21:29 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.061653.22785@tkou02.enet.dec.com> <1991Jan24.214110.1478@cec1.wustl.edu> <1991Jan24.234658.27689@lavaca.uh.edu>
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In article <1991Jan24.234658.27689@lavaca.uh.edu> jet@karazm.math.uh.edu ("J. Eric Townsend") writes:
>:%s/double/float/g
>produced a source, that when compiled, did *not* dump core.

There are several common errors made in use of floating types in C programs,
for example invoking scanf() with the wrong format or passing the wrong type
to a function.  Since SPARC tends to be less tolerant of such errors than
some other C environments, it is possible that your code has such a problem.
Is "lint" happy with the code?