Does this look familiar to anyone?  (Null pointer deref.  Did the caller
pass in a NULL?)

% gdb ramdiskbin sysinst.core 
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warning: exec file is newer than core file.
Core was generated by `sysinst'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  0x80ed7c5 in t_getstr ()
(gdb) where
#0  0x80ed7c5 in t_getstr ()
#1  0x80ed88a in tgetstr ()
#2  0x80c00c9 in _ ()
#3  0x80c0c17 in _ ()
#4  0x80c187e in _ ()
#5  0x80bec19 in _crunched_sysinst_stub ()
#6  0x8048439 in main ()
#7  0x80481c5 in __start ()
(gdb) 
(gdb) x/16i t_getstr
0x80ed7ac <t_getstr>:   pushl  %ebp
0x80ed7ad <t_getstr+1>: movl   %esp,%ebp
0x80ed7af <t_getstr+3>: subl   $0x4,%esp
0x80ed7b2 <t_getstr+6>: pushl  %edi
0x80ed7b3 <t_getstr+7>: pushl  %esi
0x80ed7b4 <t_getstr+8>: pushl  %ebx
0x80ed7b5 <t_getstr+9>: movl   0x8(%ebp),%edx
0x80ed7b8 <t_getstr+12>:        movl   0x10(%ebp),%edi
0x80ed7bb <t_getstr+15>:        movl   0x14(%ebp),%esi
0x80ed7be <t_getstr+18>:        leal   0xfffffffc(%ebp),%eax
0x80ed7c1 <t_getstr+21>:        pushl  %eax
0x80ed7c2 <t_getstr+22>:        pushl  0xc(%ebp)
0x80ed7c5 <t_getstr+25>:        pushl  (%edx)
0x80ed7c7 <t_getstr+27>:        call   0x80dd930 <cgetstr>
0x80ed7cc <t_getstr+32>:        movl   %eax,%ebx
0x80ed7ce <t_getstr+34>:        addl   $0xc,%esp
(gdb) i reg
eax            0xbfbfdc84       -1077945212
ecx            0x816e7a4        135718820
edx            0x0      0
ebx            0x816e6d8        135718616
esp            0xbfbfdc70       0xbfbfdc70
ebp            0xbfbfdc88       0xbfbfdc88
esi            0x0      0
edi            0x816e7a4        135718820
eip            0x80ed7c5        0x80ed7c5
eflags         0x10286  66182
cs             0x17     23
ss             0x1f     31
ds             0x1f     31
es             0x1f     31
fs             0x1f     31
gs             0x1f     31