> >> Any suggestions? > > That's nasty. It looks like your binutils perhaps may have been miscompiled. > > I'd rebuild binutils with no optimization. See if you still get the > internal error when assembling eh_alloc.s. Everyone else can assemble that > file, so it's probably not a binutils bug. > Ok. I recompiled the binutils without any optimizations (i.e. using the -fsimple=1 option for the Solaris C compiler). This time, I am getting an internal error at a different place. /home/kkusuman/software/compileHere/gcc-4.4-20081107/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/kkusuman/software/compileHere/gcc-4.4-20081107/./gcc/ -B/home/kkusuman/software/myroot/gcc-4.4-20081107/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/bin/ -B/home/kkusuman/software/myroot/gcc-4.4-20081107/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/lib/ -isystem /home/kkusuman/software/myroot/gcc-4.4-20081107/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/include -isystem /home/kkusuman/software/myroot/gcc-4.4-20081107/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/sys-include -c -g -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -Wmissing-format-attribute -Wno-overlength-strings -pedantic -Wno-long-long -I/home/kkusuman/software/myroot/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../unZipped/gcc-4.4-20081107/fixincludes -I../include -I../../../unZipped/gcc-4.4-20081107/fixincludes/../include ../../../unZipped/gcc-4.4-20081107/fixincludes/fixincl.c ../../../unZipped/gcc-4.4-20081107/fixincludes/fixincl.c: In function 'run_compiles': ../../../unZipped/gcc-4.4-20081107/fixincludes/fixincl.c:394: internal compiler error: Segmentation Fault Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions. make[2]: *** [fixincl.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kkusuman/software/compileHere/gcc-4.4-20081107/fixincludes' make[1]: *** [all-fixincludes] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kkusuman/software/compileHere/gcc-4.4-20081107' make: *** [all] Error 2 Any ideas/suggestions? thanks raju