Hello everyone,

Today we are attempting to port some legacy C code to a 64 HP-UX machine at my company and there is kind of a strange error we ran into.

there is a small function they have defined called zgetenv that
accepts a char* and basically just does some null checking and returns
getenv(char*)

the function works fine if i copy it into the file im attempting to recompile and change nothing other than the name of the function.
but when i attempt to call this function from the library that we have recompiled for the 64 bit machine I get a segmentation fault on the
returned value if i call a strlen or strcpy on it.

the strange thing is that this function is being called all over the place in this code and it only gives seg faults in this one module for some reason...

the only possible problem i can think of would be that we havent correctly linked this module to the new 64 bit compilation or something but I dont think that would result in a segmentation fault...

I am really really lost and any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Eric