[vorbis-dev] CVS vorbis, fatal cc1

[Segher Boessenkool]

Nicolas Pitre 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.

One day he didn't do exactly the same as the other day.  This is a well-known
bug -- I ran into it two or three years ago.  It does *not* "just work" the
next day, because null-pointer dereferences do _not_ work -- ever.

<p>Segher

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