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In article <1993Jan9.153935.9091@midway.uchicago.edu>,
almgren@math.uchicago.edu (Robert Almgren) writes:
|> 
|> The program below compiles and runs properly with
|> 
|>     CC -o prog prog.C
|> 
|> but dumps core, apparently on the assignment, when compiled with
|> 
|>     CC -mips2 -o prog prog.C
|> 
|> It does the same with the -v2 flag.
|> 
|> Am I overlooking something obvious, or is something wrong with the
|> compiler?  (System is Crimson R4000; compilers are 3.10 release).
|> 
|> 					Robert Almgren
|> 
|> 					University of Chicago
|> 					almgren@math.uchicago.edu
|> 
|>
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|> 			File "prog.C"
|> 
|> #include <stdlib.h>
|> #include <stdio.h>
|> 
|> main()
|> {
|> 	printf("Beginning of program; allocating d\n");
|> 
|> 	double *d = new double[3];
|> 	printf("d has been allocated; setting d[0]\n");
|> 
|> 	d[0] = 1.;
|> 	printf("d[0] has been set; quitting\n");
|> }
|> 
|>
=====================================================================

  This is a known bug which has benn fixed for our next OS/compiler
release. It has to do with 'malloc(3)' from libc.a not allocating
doubles on double word boundaries, which is required by '-mips2'.

  For YOUR problem (there are others that can't be solved this
way) you can compile the program using:

CC prog.cc -o prog -mips2 -lC -lmalloc

  Be aware that you HAVE TO enter '-lC' before '-lmalloc'. The usage
'-lmalloc' should solve all simple alignment problems. An additional
benefit is the improved performance of the allocation algorithms in
'mallox(3x)'.

Martin
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