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From: hbergh@nlicl1.oracle.com (Herbert van den Bergh)
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Subject: Re: HELP! Why do I get error message: "Segmentation fault(coredump)" ?
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Date: 27 May 91 15:55:49 GMT
References: <1991May23.090946.4000@leland.Stanford.EDU> <1991May23.232950.27551@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> <1991May25.055311.8071@research.canon.oz.au>
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In article <1991May25.055311.8071@research.canon.oz.au>, andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) writes:
|> Sounds like a NULL pointer dereference. VAXen have data at location 0
|> many modern systems don't (is AIX in this league?).

	Nope. From /usr/lpp/bos/bsdport:

   7.1.  Derefencing NULL Pointers

      The word at memory location zero contains a  zero.
      That  means  that  code which has been incorrectly
      written to use a NULL pointer to represent a  null
      string  will  work,  but  will  not be portable to
      other UNIX operating systems, and may not work  on
      future AIX systems.

|> -- 
|> Andy Newman (andy@research.canon.oz.au) Canon Info. Systems Research Australia

-- 
	Regards,

	Herbert van den Bergh                    hbergh@oracle.com
	Oracle Europe                            or uunet!oracle!hbergh