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I saw this posting about gs252 problem on Usenet.
(I don't have a very goodd access to Usenet and use it only 
occasionally)

>Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
>Subject: gs 2.5.2 coredumps under AIX 3.2.2, help
>Message-ID: <hm292hu.721330831@unidui>
>Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
>Organization: Universitaet Duisburg GH
>Distribution: gnu
>Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:46:33 GMT
>Approved: bug-ghostscript@prep.ai.mit.edu
>Lines: 24

>Hello Netters.
>The following ps program coredumps in gs 2.5.2 under AIX 3.2.2:
>%!PS-Adobe-1.0 
>gsave 
> newpath 200 200 100 0 270 arc
> 0 0 0 setrgbcolor stroke
> showpage 
>grestore 

>When I replace 270 with something smaller than or equal to 90,
>everything works fine. dbx says the following:

>segmentation violation in arc_add at 0x100283f8
>0x100283f8 (arc_add+0x34) 83c40078          l   r30,0x78(r4)
>(dbx) t
>arc_add(0x10028778, 100, 200, 0.0001, 100, 200, 100, 300) at 0x100283f8
>arc_either(0x10028778, 100, 200, 0.0001, 100, 200) at 0x10028024
>gs_arc(0x10028778, 100, 200, 0.0001, 100, 200) at 0x10027ca8
>
>Any comments?

>Fred Hucht, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Duisburg, Germany
>EMail: fred@hal6000.Uni-Duisburg.DE
>

 We get the same problem with our gs2.5.2 running under
AIX 3.2.  We used MIT X11R5 library and xlc to
build gs executable.  gs252 from our neighboring node running
AIX 3.1.5 runs fine on our rs6000, so for the time being, that is
what we are running.

Would appreciate help. 

yako sanborn
Brookhaven National Laboratory
sanborn@bnl.gov