What can cause a "Memory fault"

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Hamilton Chris-cham <chris.hamilton@freescale.com> writes:

> I'm having problems building GCC 3.4.3 on a 64-bit AMD Athlon Linux machine.  My bootstrap fails with a "Memory fault" error message.  What can cause this message?

1) A compiler bug.

2) Bad RAM in your system.

There are probably other possibilities, but it's hard to say with so
little information.

Ian