This user's question yesterday explains the issue in more detail: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-help/2005-03/msg00251.html corey On 29 Mar 2005 11:33:19 -0500, Ian Lance Taylor <ian@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hamilton Chris-cham <chris.hamilton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I'm having problems building GCC 3.4.3 on a 64-bit AMD Athlon Linux machine. My bootstrap fails with a "Memory fault" error message. What can cause this message? > > 1) A compiler bug. > > 2) Bad RAM in your system. > > There are probably other possibilities, but it's hard to say with so > little information. > > Ian >