------- Comment #3 from ramana at gcc dot gnu dot org 2009-09-30 07:38 ------- Can you see what a backtrace gives you in a gdb session ? It sounds like you are out of memory. I'll second what Mikael said in Comment #2 with respect to being able to bootstrap .
The other question which I have to ask is what was your configure line to configure the compiler. I've not been able to find that in your bug report here and taking a cursory look at the strace output - it appears as though it might be something to do with your environment. wait4(17376, In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:903, from test.c:1: /usr/include/bits/stdio.h: In function 'getchar': /usr/include/bits/stdio.h:47: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault Please submit a full bug report, I've got access to a Marvell board so if you give your configure line , I can try bootstrapping gcc to confirm what you are saying as well as take a look at it. I usually bootstrap with --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran and disabling stage1 checking because on some distros , the versions of binutils aren't upto scratch with creating huge ARM binaries. cheers Ramana Ramana -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41500