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ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis) ((that's me)) writes:

>I keep trying to compile gcc 1.42 on Intel SYSVR4.0.3, received from Intel
>about the time they were turning everything over to ISC.  Should be the same
>as first versions shipped by ISC before they were bought by Sun.  I suspect
>the computer may have some memory problems, but am not sure.  I have
>configed gcc 1.42 for SYSVR4 and made all of the changes pointed to in the
>Makefile.  I started out in the sys5 universe ( /bin and /usr/bin before
>/usr/ucb in PATH ) and got a fatal internal compiler error.  I changed to
>the ucb universe and hung the entire computer.  No panic, no crash image
>saving, just hung.  I tried twice more with the bsd universe and got another
>fatal error and another hang (again no panic, it hung in the window system
>instead of going back to the console screen).  I am stubborn, so I am trying
>again as I post this, this time in the sys5 universe again.  I would like
>any hints or tricks.  Even better would be an installable tar of the gcc
>binaries and whatever else is needed to get it going.

>I looked on dell2.dell.com, thinking maybe the tar there would incorporate
>Dell's porting mods, but it seems to be a stock 1.40 in the sources/v2.1
>directory. (wasn't 2.1 Dell's 4.0.3?).

>As always, any help will be appreciated.


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I finally was able to get the panic message by compiling from the console
rather than from the window system.  I had thought that panics would kick me
back to the console, but I was wrong.  The message is something about MB
parity error at unknown address.  I am going to try another MB.  Does anyone
have any suggestions of what might cause this other than a bad mem chip?
Could it be an OS bug?

Thank you again.

Stew
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  R.Stewart(Stew) Ellis, Assoc.Prof., (Off)313-762-9765  /   _____  ______ 
  Humanities & Social Science,  GMI Eng.& Mgmt. Inst.   /        / /  /  / /
  Flint, MI 48504      ellis@nova.gmi.edu              /________/ /  /  / /