gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11

[Charles Galambos]

I don't have time to track this down properly right now, but here's 
the outline of the bug.  If this is not solved, I'll try and find the
time to submit a full bug report in next couple of weeks.

The bug occures in:

 egcs-2.90.23 (official 1.0.1 release)
 egcs-2.90.26 (egcs-1.0.2-980309-prerelease)

on an 'alphaev5-unknown-linux-gnu' architecture causes an internal
compiler error signal 11 when attempting to compile the following file
with -O2 (-O is ok)

/usr/src/linux-2.0.32/drivers/net/8390.c

from standard linux kernel 2.0.32 source tree.

---
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.32/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -g -O2 -pipe -mno-fp-regs  -c -o 8390.o 8390.c
cpp: output pipe has been closed
gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
---

Cheers,

Charles.

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Charles Galambos
Programming Support Officer,
Centre for Vision, Speech, and Signal Processing.
University Of Surrey.
England.
E-Mail: C.Galambos@ee.surrey.ac.uk