How funny, building 2.95.2 with egcs 1.1.2 fails but not with itself

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 28, 2000, MichaelMeding@gmx.de wrote:

> I use RH6.2 with latest binutils. Compiling 2.95.2 Release jumps at
> me every time I try to compile this beast with a sig11. But every
> time somewhere down in java at stage2.

Is it always in the same file?  If not, you may have some hardware
problem; GCC is an excellent memory tester :-)

> Now I tried to do just a make then I installed it then make bootstraped
> gcc 2.95.2 with itself and it went through every stage.

This might be possible if egcs 1.1.2 mis-compiled some optimization
pass of stage1, such that stage1 would crash while running that
optimization while compiling stage2.  It is possible that the
mis-compilation doesn't happen with plain `make', because `make
bootstrap' builds stage1 without optimization, whereas plain `make'
does optimize.

However, it is unlikely that this is your case, since many people,
myself included, have bootstraped GCC 2.95.2 with egcs 1.1.2.  Unless
you're using some Red Hat Linux 6.2 on some platform other than x86,
alpha or sparc.

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