[vorbis-dev] CVS vorbis, fatal cc1

[Michael Smith]

At 10:04 PM 25/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>
>> > Signal 11 in gcc are signs of bad hardware, especially memory, most of the
>> > time.  You might want to run memtest86 on your PC to be sure.
>> 
>> I wish people would unlearn this "sig11 == hardware problem" as fast and
>> thoroughly as they learned it.  With any somewhat-recent gcc, a sig11
>> (and especially repeatable ones!) are almost always a gcc bug.
>
>Segher, please re-read what the guy wrote.
>
>One day it crashes.  The next day it works.
>

Nicolas, please re-read what the guy wrote.

One day it crashes, repeatedly, in a well-known place with a set of options
and a version of gcc that are KNOWN to always cause a crash due to a specific
gcc bug. The next day, it does not crash, with those options changed to
avoid the bug.

Michael

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