c/699: Specific Parse Error Causes Seg Fault

[jbnance at tresgeek dot net]

>Number:         699
>Category:       c
>Synopsis:       Specific Parse Error Causes Seg Fault
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 27 14:36:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jason Nance
>Release:        gcc version 2.96 20000731
>Organization:
>Environment:
Red Hat Linux 7.0, Intel PIII 600 (Katmai) with 256 MB RAM
>Description:
My crappy IDE controller spits out a "`" every few seconds if there isn't any input.
This happened at the beginning of a 'C' file I was working on, and I didn't notice it.
When I compiled, I always got the error messages included.


kills.c:1: parse error before ``'
In file included from /usr/include/bits/types.h:166,
                 from /usr/include/stdio.h:41,
                 from kills.c:4:
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:48: parse error before `size_t'
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:48: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:51: parse error before `__stacksize'
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:51: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
/usr/include/bits/pthreadtypes.h:52: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
In file included from /usr/include/_G_config.h:45,
                 from /usr/include/libio.h:31,
                 from /usr/include/stdio.h:70,
                 from kills.c:4:
/usr/include/gconv.h:71: parse error before `size_t'
/usr/include/gconv.h:84: parse error before `size_t'
/usr/include/gconv.h:93: parse error before `size_t'
/usr/include/gconv.h:169: parse error before `size_t'
/usr/include/gconv.h:169: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
/usr/include/gconv.h:172: parse error before `}'
/usr/include/gconv.h:172: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
In file included from /usr/include/libio.h:31,
                 from /usr/include/stdio.h:70,
                 from kills.c:4:
/usr/include/_G_config.h:47: field `__cd' has incomplete type
/usr/include/_G_config.h:50: field `__cd' has incomplete type
/usr/include/_G_config.h:53: Internal error: Segmentation fault.
Please submit a full bug report.
See <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html> for instructions.
>How-To-Repeat:
The attached file is what I found to be the bare minimum 
required to repeat this situation.  I know that it wouldn't 
compile anyway, but even if you add a main with a "hello 
world" print statement, it still happens.  Or if you include 
other libraries, it still happens.
>Fix:
Better programming on the users' part.  =)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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