Thanks for the info. I tried GDB and please find the result below: 

$ gdb --args perl -e'dump'
GNU gdb 6.6
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and y
+ou are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain cond
+itions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for det
+ails.
This GDB was configured as "powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0"...
(no debugging symbols found)
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/opt/perl5/bin/perl -edump

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0xd379c2cc in Perl_my_unexec () from /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.2/aix-thre
+ad-multi/CORE/libperl.a(libperl.o)
(gdb) bt
#0  0xd379c2cc in Perl_my_unexec () from /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.2/aix-
+thread-multi/CORE/libperl.a(libperl.o)
#1  0xd3810294 in Perl_pp_goto () from /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.2/aix-th
+read-multi/CORE/libperl.a(libperl.o)
#2  0xd3885ad8 in Perl_runops_standard () from /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.
+2/aix-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.a(libperl.o)
#3  0xd3797b18 in S_run_body () from /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.2/aix-thre
+ad-multi/CORE/libperl.a(libperl.o)
#4  0xd379efbc in perl_run () from /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.2/aix-thread
+-multi/CORE/libperl.a(libperl.o)
#5  0x10000478 in main ()
(gdb)

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i have no clue on the perl info from GDB (have used zillion times for C, C++ programs). Please help me on this.

Thanks, Peacelover1976

In reply to Re^4: 32 Bit Perl causing segmentation fault if data is big by peacelover1976
in thread 32 Bit Perl causing segmentation fault if data is big by peacelover1976

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