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...quot;, "HOME=/home/lindi", "LESSCHARSET=latin1", "LOGNAME=root", "LC_CTYPE=fi_FI", "SUDO_GID=500", "_=/usr/bin/strace"]) and with the following ulimits: core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited data seg size (kbytes, -d) 1004140 max nice (-e) 0 file size (blocks, -f) unlimited pending signals (-i) unlimited max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 1004140 max memory size (kbytes, -m) 1004140 open files (-n) 1024 pipe size (512 bytes, -...

Nick, Thanks for the quick answer. Dereferencing the pointer does yield the same result in both cases but that's not what I want to do. I want to instrument the program dynamically and keep track of certain memory locations which is a problem if the same variable has different addresses for the static/dynamic code - as far I see this is what it's happening but I have no clue why. Paul On