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

[Andy Newman]

rstanton at leland.Stanford.EDU (Richard Stanton) writes:
>The following may be simple, but I'm new to the AIX environment (and to 
>programming in C under any UNIX).
>
>I am trying to run a large C program on an IBM RS/6000. The program has
>run fine on a VAX, but when I try to run it on the IBM, it starts OK, but
>after a certain point I get the error message:
>
>"Segmentation fault(coredump)"
>

Sounds like a NULL pointer dereference. VAXen have data at location 0
many modern systems don't (is AIX in this league?).
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Andy Newman (andy at research.canon.oz.au) Canon Info. Systems Research Australia