In article <Y0J1BDCJ@cc.swarthmore.edu> rbrown1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Randolph Gregory Brown) writes:
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>hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (HJ Lu) writes:
>> In article <1pkh2r$loe@agate.berkeley.edu>, nsf@tahoe.ced.berkeley.edu (NSF SF Bay research projects) writes:
>> |> As a newbie, I'm stuck  on this one. A perfectly good
>> |> C program (runs when done on a Sun compiler, turboc-c)
>> |> dumps core when run after a compile on Linux's gcc (SLS  distribution).
>> |> When I run "gdb a.out core",  I  get:
>> |> 
>> |>   #0   0x60025400 in _PLT__oct__FUii(
>> |>   cannot access memory at address 0x60001f40
>> |> 
>> |> This is an extremely simple program, the only  slightly odd
>> |> thing is that it uses the "string to token" function.
>> |> 
>> |> Any help is appreciated.
>> |> 
>> 
>> You may have used an incompatible ld and library. You can wait for next
>> SLS update or the Linux C library 4.3.3. You can also send me a small
>> piece of code to let me reproduce the error.
>> 
>
>Is there a ld newer than the one with gcc 2.3.3? (Got it with SLS 99p4,

Yes. Get libc 4.3.3 from tsx-11 under pub/linux/GCC.

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>did that come with a bad ld?)  I've been winding up in _PTL__oct__FUii() a
>lot with gdb lately playing with omega (buggy game but fun), when I should
>be in a real function.
>
>       -Randy

H.J.