> Ok, Tom, I think that I understand this a little-bit. Now with the
> above in mind, can you tell me what is wrong with the following piece
> of code that gives a nice segmentation fault? :
> 
> /* (tijd.s)
>         .globl main
~/asm$ gcc tijd.s -o tijd
For what it's worth, that ran without a segfault here (kernel 2.0.30, 
gcc 2.7.2.1, libc5.4.33). Your strace showed a complaint from the 
kernel about a "paging request". I don't have any idea what a paging 
request is. 
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