Marten Jan de Ruiter wrote:

I tried to do so, but could not locate a core. To verify core-dumping abilities, I whipped up the program at the end of my mail, which ran as intended, and produced a nice core.

Sorry, I forgot, gcc-3 disables coredumps explicitly. Try the included patch. Frank -- Frank Heckenbach, frank@g-n-u.de http://fjf.gnu.de/ GnuPG and PGP keys: http://fjf.gnu.de/plan (7977168E)