It works with 64bit (glibc-2.11.1) and segfault with 32bit.
It is a possible solution in beats.h:

    typedef struct {
      int n;                    /* self referencial */
      double *p;
      int largest;
    } INSTR;

tito

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 09:54:34AM +0100, jpff@cs.bath.ac.uk wrote:
> It is the example from the manual I have been using
> 
> No crash here (OpenSuse11.4 on x86_64) but I will keep looking.  I did
> find a nasty in instruments over 10 and fixed it (I thought).
> ==John
> 
> > Hello John,
> >
> > I ran csbeats with the test.cs file that is within the source code
> > directory, and it worked fine. So it seems that the problem is with the
> > manual example. Could you please run the manual example on your system to
> > see if you get a segment fault?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Francois
> >
> >
> >
> >> I found a typo/braino in the extending of the maximum instrument.
> >> Fixed in git.  Trouble I am having is that it does not fail for me
> >> yet.  The bug as too small a malloc so that could explain it.
> >>
> >> ==John ffitch
> >>
> >>
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