Mick & Tim: I see the same issue on magic 7.3.116, on a fully upgraded Fedora Core 4, with gcc-4.0.2-8.fc4, and glibc-2.3.5-10.3. I have, following the instructions in the magic 7.2 page, used gdb and will separately mail the output to Tim to not clutter the mailing list. Best regards, Erwin