gcc-2.95: Program dies with Sig 11 before doing anything - RH Linux 5.2

[Toon Moene]

Pretty scary, this one (using gcc-2.95pre):

[hirlam@moene ref]$ gdb hlprog32.x core 
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Core was generated by `/usr/scratch/hirlam/ref/hlprog32.x'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
#0  init (argc=1, argv=0xbffff88c, envp=0xbffff894)
    at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/init-first.c:70
../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/init-first.c:70: No such file or directory.

For a program that plain works under the compilers from the trunk -
errmmm, oh yes, I changed this one in f/com.c for those:

#define FFECOM_sizeMAXSTACKITEM 0
#ifndef FFECOM_sizeMAXSTACKITEM
#define FFECOM_sizeMAXSTACKITEM 32*1024 /* Keep user-declared things
                                           larger than this # bytes
                                           off stack if possible. */
#endif

[ the first line is mine ]

What this does is make the compiler generate code to allocate all local
arrays on the stack, regardless of size.

Which means that the error I get is still pretty scary:  A 45 Mbyte
working set program that cannot be linked successfully on RH Linux 5.2 -
brrr :-(

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