HELP! Why do I get error message: "Segmentation fault(coredump)" ?

[Herbert van den Bergh]

In article <1991May25.055311.8071 at research.canon.oz.au>, andy at 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 at research.canon.oz.au) Canon Info. Systems Research Australia

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	Herbert van den Bergh                    hbergh at oracle.com
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