[Bug other/29049] possible problem: building gcc >= 4.2 on i686 GNU/Linux|SMP (non-64bit) platform fails

[WISD00M at GMX dot NET]

------- Comment #15 from WISD00M at GMX dot NET  2006-09-13 00:36 -------
> No it does not.
Well, as I said: it's just an assumption-for the lack of a better explanation
right now.

>Are you sure you don't have some bad hardware?
well, define "bad hardware"-the system works without any problems whatsoever,
no crashes, no performance issues, no nothing. 
In fact, it does compile other software without any problems, too-it even
compiled gcc 4.01.
So, I have really no reason to believe that this is due to some sort of
hardware issue. Neither do I believe this to be some sort of gcc-internal bug.

Rather, I have come to believe that somewhere along the build process (for
whatever reason), gcc 4.2 is made believe that it should assume 64bit as
default target platform. Otherwise, I'm really not sure why it would create an
cc1 executable that terminates immediatley with the aforementioned error, when
it's started without the "-m32" flag.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29049