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jeffw@indirect.com (Jeffrey D. Wheelhouse) writes:

>I have been trying to build various versions of gcc for Irix 4.0.5 for
>about a week.  I am encountering two major problems that are preventing
>me from living a happy and fulfilled life:
>
>1)  For some reason, my machine does not like compilers.  Now and then,
>for no apparent reason, a signal 11 will pop up in cc1 or ccom (or whatever
>it's called), depending on what stage I'm in.  If I compile again, maybe it 
>will do it again, maybe not, it is not regular.  Is my CPU getting too
>hot or something?  Or is that an old wives' tale?

No, it's not an old wives tale.  GCC is just about the best memory
test program there is.  If some of your memory is a little flakey,
it may pass through ordinary memory checking programs fine, but
will cause GCC to abort with fatal signals at irregular intervals.

>2)  Muddling through all that, I eventually build the stage 1 compiler.
>Great.  I build the stage two compiler.  Great.  The stage two compiler
>dumps core on run.  I am able to build small (one file) programs with
>the stage 1 compiler, but anything larger dumps core on run.

Well, gcc 2.5.5 works fine on Irix 4.0.4 for me.  Can't help any further,
I'm afraid.

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Fergus Henderson                     fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU