Bishop, Peter G wrote: > Can anyone suggest a reason why a seg fault might happen on one platform but > not another? Please excuse my ignorance if I've phrased the question badly. Usually it is due to either endianess problems (we are big endian versus wintel is little endian) and/or 32 vs 64 bit issues. You need an strace that follows the forks, also try $bash> echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/userprocess_debug and check the output in dmesg. If you can compile with gdb debug info, gdb will also tell you where it crashed...
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