segmentation fault

[Andrew Haley]

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fred.cotton@oasincorp.com writes:
 > With apologies for being new:
 > In porting a hardware configuration from gcc-3.4.1 to gcc-4.2.0, I'm getting the
 > following error message:
 > 
 > In file included from /cygdrive/c/gcc-4.2.0/gcc/crtstuff.c:68:
 > /cygdrive/c/gcc-4.2.0/gcc/tsystem.h:53: internal compiler error: Segmentation
 > fault. 
 > 
 > Lines 52-54 of tsystem.h are:
 > 
 > #ifndef malloc
 > extern void *malloc (size_t);
 > #endif
 > 
 > If I remove these lines, all the other extern statements fail also. 
 > What precisely does Segmentation fault mean in this context? Is it referring to
 > the underlying Windows XP?
 > What sort of compiler, configuration or operating system parameters could be the
 > cause?
 > Where should I be looking?
 
Your gcc-4.2.0 is broken.  You need to look at exactly how it was
built.  Did you build it yourself from source?

Andrew.