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To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Subject: Freebsd9.0 and the fgets directive in gcc
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Martin McCormick writes:

>  I've got some code which I wrote about 6 or 8 years ago that
>  apparently doesn't get along right now with FreeBSD9.0. In the
>  problem code, there is a loop that uses fgets to read a line
>  from a file. It runs properly until the 2708TH iteration and
>  then it dumps core with a segmentation fault.

	<deletia>
	Have you built this program with debugging turned on?
	What does the core dump say?

	Respectfully,


				Robert Huff