The only thing I can think of off hand is that the ftell is trying to  
resolve into an ftello
which is using a long long too allow for > 32bit file pointers. You  
should confirm if this
is happening or not by following how the defines actually resolve into  
what C code.

On Nov 30, 2004, at 11:14 PM, Bruce ONeel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Continuing my quest to run as many odd and outdated systems
> as possible, I've now managed to scare up a sparcstation 4
> for the home network.
>
> Oddly, given that 3.6-3 runs on i386, ppc, and mac68k versions
> of NetBSD it crashes reading the sources file on startup with
> a bus error on SPARC.  It happens on the ftell at line
> 172 of sqFilePluginBasicPrims.c and yet both f and f->file seem
> to point to reasonable things.  This is with gcc 2.9x or so.
>
> Is there something obvious I've missed?  The last VM version
> which does seem to run is 2.8pre3.  I'm a bit confused here.
>
> Thanks!
>
> cheers
>
> bruce
>
>
>
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