[...] >> 2.20 IP::Country >> Bus error (core dumped) >> >> Perl is >> >> perl -v >> >> This is perl, v5.8.5 built for i386-freebsd-64int Technically, isn't a bus error rather strange for x86, even x86_64? x86 can do unaligned accesses just fine. Don't know about the BSD semantics, though. Martin, is this new or did you upgrade something?