bug? Need help deciding.

[Zack Weinberg]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 09:28:04PM -0500, Vicky Daigle wrote:
> Hi!  I'm hoping someone can help me out, since I'm not sure what to do. 
> I'm trying to compile something, and gcc keeps crashing.  It reports a
> segmentation fault, and tells me to submit a full bug report.
...
> Since I'm not exactly an ace programmer, I'm assuming that I'm
> probably doing something wrong, but I wouldn't know for sure.

It doesn't matter if your program is buggy.  If the compiler crashes,
on any input whatsoever, that is a compiler bug and we want to know
about it.

...
> Finally, my gcc version is 2.96 and
> it's running in Red Hat 7 (and I've been too lazy to go back to Red Hat
> 6.2).

HOWEVER: There are several versions of the compiler distributed with
Red Hat 7.  All of them call themselves "gcc 2.96."  Many of them are
riddled with bugs.  You should acquire an update RPM from Red Hat's
web site and see if that makes the problem go away.

If it does not, then follow the instructions at
http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/bugs.html for reporting bugs in GCC.
If those instructions do not make sense, please tell us what confuses
you, so we can make them clearer.

zw