From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark Eichin) Subject: Re: Internal compiler error while building kernel Date: 29 Dec 1992 20:59:16 GMT
In article <1992Dec28.133156.301@camaro.uucp> tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley) writes:
From: tfoley@camaro.uucp (Tim Foley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Date: 28 Dec 92 13:31:56 GMT
References: <1992Dec28.010228.9589@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
In article <1992Dec28.010228.9589@cbfsb.cb.att.com> wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) writes:
>
>When building the kernel (via 'make all'), I occasionally get the
>following error message and compilation stops:
> gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 4
>
>Then, I re-type 'make all', and the build will continue successfully.
>This may happen two or three times during building the entire kernel.
>Once built, the kernel works fine.
>
I've seen the same problem... on my 486/40 w/16M ram, I get these
failures intermittently. On the various 386sx laptops I've rented (4M
and 8M of ram, 20Mhz or less) I've never seen the problem. I've tried
adding wait states, but that hasn't helped... and I haven't tried 99.1
on the 486 yet (still running 98.6 or so.) Interestingly enough, I've
mostly seen the compiler fail when running it inside of emacs, but I
think I've seen it fail once or twice run from a shell, so it could be
a memory usage related problem.
_Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
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