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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!iol!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!ruthless.demon.co.uk!ravi From: Ravi Cheema <ravi@ruthless.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD and GNU gcc Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 22:53:42 +0100 Organization: Runsoft Corp. Lines: 41 Distribution: world Message-ID: <ZV4b7AAm$$exEwfe@ruthless.demon.co.uk> References: <sjqiRAAuaUexEwKO@ruthless.demon.co.uk> <4ldirk$og7@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: ruthless.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: ruthless.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Version 1.12 <RgQ9LxdC7CwdhlQNRYqQ0ig1yt> In article <4ldirk$og7@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie>, David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> writes >Ravi Cheema <ravi@ruthless.demon.co.uk> writes: > >>The application is written in standard 'C' and was originally developed >>on a SYS5 system. The application compiles without any errors using gcc >>v2.6. However when I try to run the program, the program exits and the >>system immediately repors the following error: > >>'Exec format error. Wrong Architecture.' > >My first guess would be that something with the same name as your >program has eneded up in your path. Make sure you are running the >correct program with "which progname". You could also try "gcc -v" >which makes gcc a bit more verbose. > >It sounds either like something silly, or a weird compiler problem. > > David. David, Thanks for your reply. You could be right, I'm not actually running 'gcc' but 'cc', when I type 'man cc' it displays the man page for 'gcc' so I assume I'm actually using 'gcc' when I run 'cc', is this correct? Certain programs within the application compile using 'cc' and run OK, but a particular program which is quite large compiles OK but fails with the error 'Exec format error. Wrong Architecture.' Could this be a resource problem? i.e. the system reporting a lack of memory in a stange way? Any help on this would be most appreciated. ____________________________________________________________________________ Ravi Cheema "We take a handful of sand from the <ravi@ruthless.demon.co.uk> endless landscape of awareness around us <ravi@osm.co.uk> and call that handful of sand the world." ____________________________________________________________________________