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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!news.dra.com!netaxs.com!tezcat!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet From: Vlad <vlad@uiuc.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: compiler errors with default gcc in FreeBSD 2.1.5 Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 15:07:13 -0500 Organization: Baphomet's Throne Lines: 26 Message-ID: <323326F8.446B9B3D@uiuc.edu> References: <50v1v8$sl2@quack.acs.umbc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: colt-29.slip.uiuc.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) Omar Siddique wrote: > > Hi, I not too long ago installed FreeBSD 2.1.5 on my PC. While I'm > experienced with UNIX on dedicated UNIX platforms, this is my first > real foray into PC unix. I'm using the default compiler setup. > > When I'm building new kernels, or doing compiling in general, every > so often gcc dies with an internal error in cc1, and indicates its > gotten a signal 6 from the kernel (sigabrt). Running the compile > again usually works fine (just picks up where it left off). > > Is this a problem with gcc (which is 2.6.3 -- I've run this version > elsewhere without problems), a problem with freebsd, or something else? > I was thinking of installing a newer gcc (2.7.2.1), but didn't want to > take the time if this can be fixed in some other way. It dies with > this error between 2 and 10 times in a single kernel build... > > I have 32 megs of memory and 97 megs of swap, and swapinfo indicates > I'm not using the swap at all... > > Thanks in advance for any advice. Could be bad memory...Check out http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ for some eye-openers. Vlad.