------- Comment #4 from armin76 at gentoo dot org 2009-09-30 13:49 ------- (In reply to comment #3) > 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 . Hrm...well, thats weird. I have 3G of RAM, and with gcc-4.3 i don't have any problem. Also gcc-4.4 builds fine with -O2 as STAGE1_CFLAGS. Besides this should show up on dmesg, and i don't have anything regarding that. IOW, the kernel didn't kill the compile process
> > 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. Sure, sorry i didn't post it. Here it is: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.4.1/work/gcc-4.4.1/configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/gcc-bin/4.4.1 --includedir=/usr/lib/gcc/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/4.4.1/include --datadir=/usr/share/gcc-data/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/4.4.1 --mandir=/usr/share/gcc-data/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/4.4.1/man --infodir=/usr/share/gcc-data/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/4.4.1/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/lib/gcc/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/4.4.1/include/g++-v4 --host=armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi --build=armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi --disable-altivec --disable-fixed-point --without-ppl --without-cloog --with-float=soft --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --with-system-zlib --disable-checking --disable-werror --enable-secureplt --disable-multilib --enable-libmudflap --disable-libssp --enable-libgomp --enable-cld --with-python-dir=/share/gcc-data/armv5tel-softfloat-linux-gnueabi/4.4.1/python --disable-libgcj --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --with-bugurl=http://bugs.gentoo.org/ --with-pkgversion="Gentoo 4.4.1 p1.0" > > > 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 > This is what i've done as of now: -build gcc-4.4 using STAGE1_CFLAGS=-O2 with gcc-4.3, then build gcc-4.4 with newly-built gcc-4.4 with STAGE1_CFLAGS=-O <---------- segfault -build gcc-4.4 using STAGE1_CFLAGS=-O with gcc-4.3, then build gcc-4.4 with newly-built gcc-4.4 with STAGE1_CFLAGS=-O2 <---------- works ATM i'm trying this: -build gcc-4.4 using STAGE1_CFLAGS=-O2 with gcc-4.3, then build gcc-4.4 with newly-built gcc-4.4 with STAGE1_CFLAGS=-O Will let you know, i'll attach the full build log meanwhile -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41500
