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>> I just tried what you suggested, putting the image on the desktop.
>> Nothing much happens for several minutes, though, when checking using
>> top, I see that it takes a large amount of CPU time.  Then it crashes
>> with the only message being "Illegal instruction (core dumped)".
>
> Thanks for trying it.
>
> Darn. I'm sorry it did not work. I'm not really sure what else to suggest
> at this point :-(
>
> Well, maybe one thing - you might try compiling with gcc optimization
> turned off. I think that the make file I sent is using "-O3" which is
> fairly aggressive, you might try setting to "-O0" (zero) and see if
> it makes a difference.

It might be worth trying.

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