you seem to be using a SUN SPARC. A bus error is often induced on these architectures 
when pointer 
access is not aligned on word boundary. 

whether this is caused by the Perl binary itself or the script i don't know
/kk

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 04:39:54PM +0530, Narendran Kumaraguru Nathan wrote:
> Hai Guys,
> 
>   I am compiling a perl code (arround 200 lines). I run it with perl -w (so that I 
>can see all the
> warnings). It
> reports no warnings and executes. All is fine till I give one input ( like 1..5 ) 
>meaning that I
> need actions 1 to 5
> to be done. Atonce the following error is printed in the screen and the program 
>quits.
> error>> Bus error (core dumped)
> 
>   The user can specify a command or a series of command if the input is >1 then only 
>one command
> (for 1)
> is executed. if the input is >1 2 , then execution of 2 follows execution of 1 . If 
>the input is
> >1..5 , then
> I wish actions 1 to 5 to be executed one after another.
> 
> Now, the way I have implemented  is below
> foreach (@line) {
>     if ( $_ =~ /\.\./) {  # if the input has two consecutive .'s
>      ($s, $e) = split /\.\./, $_;  # split with the dots to get start and end
>      push @line, $s;  # append to the input line
>      while ( $s <= $e ) { push @line, $s++; };
>     }elsif ($_ ==      #  next comparison
>         # specify to execute commands some input
> }
> 
> Can anyone give me a clue why this happens?? Or is there a better way of doing this?
> Thanks & Regards,
> Naren.
> 
> 
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