size of pointers is equal to word size of the machine
so on 64 bit machine size of pointer will be 8 byte while that of int is 4
byte

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Swathi <chukka.swa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Try check if (p == NULL)... may be memory is not allocated...
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Balaji S <balaji.ceg...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> The following C program segfaults of IA-64, but works fine on IA-32.
>>
>> *  int main()
>>   {
>>       int* p;
>>
>>
>>
>>       p = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int));
>>
>>
>>
>>       *p = 10;
>>       return 0;
>>
>>
>>
>>   }
>> *
>>
>> Why does it happen so?
>>
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