On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 11:49 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > With apologies for being new: > In porting a hardware configuration from gcc-3.4.1 to gcc-4.2.0, I'm getting > the > following error message: > > In file included from /cygdrive/c/gcc-4.2.0/gcc/crtstuff.c:68: > /cygdrive/c/gcc-4.2.0/gcc/tsystem.h:53: internal compiler error: Segmentation > fault.
It is probably Cygwin that is reporting the segmentation fault. If you're a Windows user, this term refers to a memory access fault due to accessing an unmapped address or de-referencing the null pointer. The compiler is crashing while you're compiling one of the earliest source files in the runtime library. This usually suggests a fairly simple and obvious problem -- and I don't think the compiler is properly reporting the fault location to you, based on what you've pasted into your message. I would take the xgcc command executed by the Makefile, add -save-temps to the command line, generate a preprocessed file and then run cc1 under a debugger with crtstuff.i as its input source file. Then you can work out what is going on. Good luck, Ben -- Ben Elliston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Australia Development Lab, IBM
