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1 total messages Started by Mitchell N. Perilstein Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:07
Need advice debugging 2.1
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Author: Mitchell N. Perilstein
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:07
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I'm giving all the following information not as a bug report but as a
request in hopes that someone can suggest a debugging technique that
will result in understanding the cause of the crash.  Once understood, I
will submit a report.

I'm trying to debug gcc2.1 on a Sun 4/110 running SunOS 4.1.2. The error is

  gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 4

while compiling an 11meg C file.  (It's automatically generated C for
simulation which needs to be that big. Anyway, it's a good torture test
for gcc.)

cc1 runs for a long time. Watching the sizes of the /tmp/cca files, the
.i appears very quickly, then the .s grows steadily in size, then stops
growing.  Things sit for about fifteen minutes in this state, with cc1
in `D' state and and gcc in `IW'. Finally, the message appears and it
leaves a 45 meg core. gdb4.6 is confused and prints only one stack frame
when examining the core.

  (gdb) i st
  #0  0xf76e3e54 in bzero ()

It works the same way when run under gdb4.6 by attach'ing to cc1.
Resourcewise, there is 50m of swap free at the lowest point, and 80m
/tmp.

If anyone thinks upgrading to more recent gcc would change anything, I
will do so.

TIA,
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 Mitchell N. Perilstein   CAD Language Systems, Inc.   410-992-5700 x225 
 Member, League for Programming Freedom.  Mail lpf@uunet.uu.net for info.
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