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Re: segmentation fault
- From: Andrew Haley <aph-gcc at littlepinkcloud dot COM>
- To: fred dot cotton at oasincorp dot com
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 16:53:31 +0100
- Subject: Re: segmentation fault
- References: <20070605114929.9oalrlftyfc0gwkg@webmail1.covadhosting.biz>
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fred.cotton@oasincorp.com writes:
> With apologies for being new:
> In porting a hardware configuration from gcc-3.4.1 to gcc-4.2.0, I'm getting the
> following error message:
>
> In file included from /cygdrive/c/gcc-4.2.0/gcc/crtstuff.c:68:
> /cygdrive/c/gcc-4.2.0/gcc/tsystem.h:53: internal compiler error: Segmentation
> fault.
>
> Lines 52-54 of tsystem.h are:
>
> #ifndef malloc
> extern void *malloc (size_t);
> #endif
>
> If I remove these lines, all the other extern statements fail also.
> What precisely does Segmentation fault mean in this context? Is it referring to
> the underlying Windows XP?
> What sort of compiler, configuration or operating system parameters could be the
> cause?
> Where should I be looking?
Your gcc-4.2.0 is broken. You need to look at exactly how it was
built. Did you build it yourself from source?
Andrew.