[plug] Random cc segfaults?

[Trevor Phillips]

On Tuesday 03 February 2004 11:36, James Devenish wrote:
> One thought is to examine crash dumps and see the
> compiler is always failing in the same area. Not sure why the problem
> would be intermittent, though. By the way: are you sure it's actually
> segmentation faults that are the cause of failure? Other problems could
> include "ulimits" that restrict the time or memory that a process uses.

Trying again now. It's currently sitting on:
     CC      arch/i386/kernel/sys_i386.o
CPU usage: 98%.
It's been sitting there about, oh, 20 mins?

I kill it, and restart the build process - this time it compiles sys_i386.o in 
under a second?

Next problem:
  CC      arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.o
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c: In function `post_set':
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c:283: internal compiler error: Segmentation 
fault

Restart... Compiles generic.o fine.

Next problem:
  CC      arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.o
arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c: In function `MP_bus_info':
arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c:224: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault

Restart... Compiles mpparse.o fine
etc...

Doing a clean & restarting from scratch does NOT give errors at the same 
points.

gcc version is 3.3.2 (Debian Testing package)

Hmmm. This error was a little different:

  CC      mm/slab.o
mm/slab.c: In function `kmem_cache_free':
mm/slab.c:2177: internal compiler error: in verify_local_live_at_start, at 
flow.c:575

Um, how do enable creation of core dump files? I've tried "limit coredumpsize 
xxx" for various values of xxx (under tcsh).

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