Andres Loeh
I just tried to build nhc98-1.16, with the three patches that are available applied, on my (Gentoo) Linux-x86 machine.
[ segfault when calling the nhc98comp binary for the first time ]
Yes, this indicates that your compiler build is definitely broken. Thanks for the strace output - it does not immediately seem to show anything out of place, but I will study it more closely just in case.
Here is which gcc and glibc I use:
gcc-3.3.2 glibc-2.3.2
I assume you applied the gcc3.3 patch for nhc98. Here, on Slackware 9 Linux, with gcc-3.2.2 and glibc-2.3.1, I don't see these problems. However, others have reported seg faults on e.g. NetBSD. My best guess is that this is another byte-code alignment problem of the same kind that we have already seen a couple of times with different versions of the gcc toolset. Unfortunately, it would be very difficult for me to debug this remotely. Regards, Malcolm