[Bug c/12642] New: gcc segfaults when compiling nvidia drivers

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           Summary: gcc segfaults when compiling nvidia drivers
           Product: gcc
           Version: 3.3.2
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: c
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: jacob at gnu dot org
                CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
 GCC build triplet: i386-pc-gnu
  GCC host triplet: i386-pc-gnu
GCC target triplet: i386-pc-gnu

Hi.  So I get the following error when trying to compile nvidia's linux driver.
 I just installed debian yesterday and am using the unstable feed and just
installed linux 2.4.22 with no problems.

[root@abyss /tmp/selfgz613/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2/usr/src/nv] make
cc -c -Wall -Wimplicit -Wreturn-type -Wswitch -Wformat -Wchar-subscripts
-Wparentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -Wno-multichar  -O -MD -D__KERNEL__
-DMODULE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES -DNTRM -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LOOSE_KERNEL_NAMES
-D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE  -DNV_MAJOR_VERSION=1 -DNV_MINOR_VERSION=0
-DNV_PATCHLEVEL=4496  -DNV_UNIX   -DNV_LINUX   -DNV_INT64_OK   -DNVCPU_X86     
-DREMAP_PAGE_RANGE_4  -I. -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wno-cast-qual nv.c
In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/fs.h:19,
                 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/capability.h:17,
                 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/binfmts.h:5,
                 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/sched.h:9,
                 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/mm.h:4,
                 from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/slab.h:14,
                 from nv-linux.h:71,
                 from nv.c:14:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/dcache.h: In function `dget':
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/dcache.h:248: internal compiler error: Segmentation
fault
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make: *** [nv.o] Error 1  

Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/3.3.2/specs
Configured with: ../src/configure -v
--enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,pascal,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr
--mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.3 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib
--enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit
--enable-clocale=gnu --enable-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm
--enable-java-awt=xlib --enable-objc-gc i486-linux
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3.2 20031005 (Debian prerelease)