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> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:13:42 +0200
> From: Peter Claessens <peter DOT claessens AT psy DOT kuleuven DOT ac DOT be>
> 
> General Protection Fault at eip=000c11f7
> eax=6d657270 ebx=002396d0 ecx=002399b8 edx=6d657274 esi=002399b8 edi=00000012

EAX and EDX look like ASCII text.  I'd look at the disassembly near
EIP=000c11f7, find where in memory did the value of EAX come, and then
display 20 or so bytes around that memory address as if it were a
string.  The text you will see might ring a bell--e.g., you might see
some text that your program puts into some variable.

> Next is a page fault here but it often gets reported as general 
> protection fault!

That is normal: when the segment limit is close to 4GB, bad addresses
cannot page fault since almost any address is within limits.