Dear All, could you please tell me what type of error is the following code returning? make[5]: Entering directory `/home/kosarker/Work/build-gcc/gcc' /home/kosarker/Work/build-gcc/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/kosarker/Work/build-gcc/./gcc/ -B/usr/local/spu/bin/ -B/usr/local/spu/lib/ -isystem /usr/local/spu/include -isystem /usr/local/spu/sys-include -O2 -g -O2 -DIN_GCC -DCROSS_DIRECTORY_STRUCTURE -W -Wall -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-qual -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wold-style-definition -isystem ./include -I. -I/home/kosarker/Work/build-gcc/spu/mea64/libgcc -I../../gcc-4.5.0/gcc -I../../gcc-4.5.0/gcc//home/kosarker/Work/build-gcc/spu/mea64/libgcc -I../../gcc-4.5.0/gcc/../include -I../../gcc-4.5.0/gcc/../libcpp/include -I../../gcc-4.5.0/gcc/../libdecnumber -I../../gcc-4.5.0/gcc/../libdecnumber/dpd -I../libdecnumber -g -O2 -mea64 -g0 -finhibit-size-directive -fno-inline -fno-exceptions -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss -fno-toplevel-reorder -fno-tree-vectorize -Dinhibit_libc \ -c ../../gcc-4.5.0/gcc/crtstuff.c -DCRT_BEGIN \ -o /home/kosarker/Work/build-gcc/spu/mea64/libgcc/crtbegin.o ../../gcc-4.5.0/gcc/crtstuff.c:249:1: 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[5]: *** [/home/kosarker/Work/build-gcc/spu/mea64/libgcc/crtbegin.o] Error 1 make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/kosarker/Work/build-gcc/gcc' make[4]: *** [gcc-extra-parts] Error 2 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/kosarker/Work/build-gcc/spu/mea64/libgcc' make[3]: *** [multi-do] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/kosarker/Work/build-gcc/spu/libgcc' make[2]: *** [all-multi] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kosarker/Work/build-gcc/spu/libgcc' make[1]: *** [all-target-libgcc] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kosarker/Work/build-gcc' make: *** [all] Error 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- what I did that in the file c-typeck.c I have added some code, like following : previously it was : else if (codel == POINTER_TYPE && coder == INTEGER_TYPE) { /* An explicit constant 0 can convert to a pointer, or one that results from arithmetic, even including a cast to integer type. */ WARN_FOR_ASSIGNMENT (location, 0, G_("passing argument %d of %qE makes " "pointer from integer without a cast"), G_("assignment makes pointer from integer " "without a cast//// konica diff address space"), G_("initialization makes pointer from " "integer without a cast"), G_("return makes pointer from integer " "without a cast")); } I have replaced it with : else if (codel == POINTER_TYPE && coder == INTEGER_TYPE) { /* An explicit constant 0 can convert to a pointer, or one that results from arithmetic, even including a cast to integer type. */ tree ttl = TREE_TYPE (type); tree ttr = TREE_TYPE (rhstype); tree mvl = ttl; tree mvr = ttr; bool is_opaque_pointer; int target_cmp = 0; /* Cache comp_target_types () result. */ addr_space_t asl; addr_space_t asr; asl = TYPE_ADDR_SPACE (ttl); asr = TYPE_ADDR_SPACE (ttr); if (asr != asl ) { WARN_FOR_ASSIGNMENT (location, 0, G_("passing argument %d of %qE makes " "pointer from integer without a cast"), G_("assignment makes pointer from integer " "without a cast"), G_("initialization makes pointer from " "integer without a cast"), G_("return makes pointer from integer " "without a cast")); }