5 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 54f96cc3..166ebc70 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-02-07         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>
+
+	* main.c (main): Move init of `output_fp' to before parsing of
+	program so that error messages from msg.c don't dump core.
+	Thanks to Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>.
+
 2012-01-13         Arnold D. Robbins     <arnold@skeeve.com>
 
 	* dfa.c [is_valid_unibtye_character]: Fix from GNU grep to 
diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index 43a3e4a5..e148b2cb 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -304,6 +304,8 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 	/* init array handling. */
 	array_init();
 
+	output_fp = stdout;
+
 	/* we do error messages ourselves on invalid options */
 	opterr = FALSE;
 
@@ -676,7 +678,6 @@ out:
 		setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, "");
 #endif
 
-	output_fp = stdout;
 	interpret(code_block);
 
 	if (do_profiling) {
diff --git a/po/de.gmo b/po/de.gmo
index 0a64b291..6c6bbcdd 100644
--- a/po/de.gmo
+++ b/po/de.gmo
diff --git a/po/es.gmo b/po/es.gmo
index 2bd17e29..407c31a8 100644
--- a/po/es.gmo
+++ b/po/es.gmo
diff --git a/po/fr.gmo b/po/fr.gmo
index 39b7ec47..0a64d1b7 100644
--- a/po/fr.gmo
+++ b/po/fr.gmo