> There's only one problem: cpp crashes the machine. Yes, folks, I can swap
> it to death, I can run many parallel untars, I can drive the load up to
> 10 with no problems, but as soon as I run cpp, it panics with a memory fault.
> And what's worse is, I got a crash dump, but gdb refuses to open it--it
> says there's no such file or directory. ktrace confirms that it's opening the
> core file and reading 32 bytes from it, but then it tells me the core file
> doesn't exist.
> 
> I expect that the problem is fairly simple, like some bounds checking isn't
> being done right in some system call that cpp is using, but it's fairly
> hard to track it down at all without gdb :-) What should I do? Would it help
> to upgrade to 1.2.1 or one of the snapshots? Are these two things known
> problems, or have I run into something obscure?

Sounds like you hit something obscure. Try 1.2.1.

Take care,

Bill