Wierd core dump on sparc-1

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <1991Jan24.234658.27689 at lavaca.uh.edu> jet at karazm.math.uh.edu ("J. Eric Townsend") writes:
>:%s/double/float/g
>produced a source, that when compiled, did *not* dump core.

There are several common errors made in use of floating types in C programs,
for example invoking scanf() with the wrong format or passing the wrong type
to a function.  Since SPARC tends to be less tolerant of such errors than
some other C environments, it is possible that your code has such a problem.
Is "lint" happy with the code?