🚀 go-pugleaf

Ian Underwood (ian@mdsun1.technion.ac.il) wrote:
: I have a general question about gcc.  (I am using gcc2.5.8 on a Sparc 10
: running Solaris 2.3.)  Whenever I try to build something 
: large or complicated (gcl, xrn, xv), the odds are very good that make will fail
: several times, because of an "internal compiler error".  For example, 
snip, snip...
:     gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 6
:     *** Error code 1
:     make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `fat_string.o'
snip, snip
: The odds are also very good that, if I simply type "make" again, the 
: compilation will continue as though no error occurred.   Furthermore, 
: if I repeat the build from scratch, the failures appear to occur in 
: random places.  What I would like to know is:

: 1)  Is this a common occurrence?  Does it happen to other people?

 Yes, I get these errors too, they are error 10 (no child processes)
 nowadays, wasn't 6 'bus error', I have get this too sometimes somewhere...

: 2)  Does anyone know what might cause it?  

 I think it's when memory is sparse and the paging/swapping starts -
or something wrong with process communication...

: 3)  Is there a simple way to get around it?

 Don't know... very disturbing anyhow...

 These pecularities seem to be machine-independent, I use a SCO
386/40 machine with 8 MBytes that gives these errors...