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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?

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.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and will win the much-sought-after
prize of my undying gratitude.

Thanks,
Jeff

Hairy numbers:

Personal Iris 4d/35 TG
Irix 4.0.5 
gcc-2.5.2, gcc-2.5.4, & gcc-2.5.6

configure options:
every possible combination of:
mips-sgi-irix4, mips-sgi-irix4loser, with-gnu-as, and with-gnu-ld.

hinv:
1 36 MHZ IP12 Processor
FPU: MIPS R2010A/R3010 VLSI Floating Point Chip Revision: 4.0
CPU: MIPS R2000A/R3000 Processor Chip Revision: 3.0
On-board serial ports: 4
Data cache size: 64 Kbytes
Instruction cache size: 64 Kbytes
Main memory size: 32 Mbytes
Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 0
CDROM: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version WD33C93A, revision 9
Iris Audio Processor, rev 3
Graphics board: GR1.2 Bit-plane, Z-buffer, Turbo options installed

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