More on segmentation fault

From: Jen Mankoff <jmankoff_at_cs.oberlin.edu>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 12:04:30 -0500

>Even just (- 9999999 1) gives a segmentation fault.

I gather that subtracting something from a bignum (does random return
a bignum by default?) is the problem. I get a slightly different error
from the following:

STk> (- 99999999999999999999999 99999999999999999999)
pid 28089 (stk-bin) was killed on an unaligned access, at pc 0x436ed4
Bus error
Received on Fri Nov 11 1994 - 18:05:25 CET

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