Andrew Haley writes: > Redirected to gcc-help. > > fred.cotton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > 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. > > > > Lines 52-54 of tsystem.h are: > > > > #ifndef malloc > > extern void *malloc (size_t); > > #endif > > > > If I remove these lines, all the other extern statements fail also. > > What precisely does Segmentation fault mean in this context? Is it referring to > > the underlying Windows XP? > > What sort of compiler, configuration or operating system parameters could be the > > cause? > > Where should I be looking? > > Your gcc-4.2.0 is broken. You need to look at exactly how it was > built. Did you build it yourself from source? Or, does this perhaps happen when you are building gcc-4.2.0 with gcc-3.4.1? Andrew.
