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On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Kim Hawtin spake:
>> The most likely cause of a sig 11 tends to be flaky memory. Have you
>> tested it with memtest86? There's now a bootable ISO on the site, so
>> arguments about it being difficult to run are to be considered
>> specious ;)
> 
> memory errors or parity errors or dma errors or ide short read errors or
> irq wyrdness ... the list is way to scary to contemplate really... the PC
> architecture is shit and various chipsets report things differently.

The problem here tends to be that there is *no* `reporting' at all: all
GCC sees is that some of its pointer-chases go off into nowhere because
of (from GCC's viewpoint) random bit-flips in its pointers.

And GCC does a *lot* of pointer chasing; *far* more than any other
program you're likely to run except perhaps for the kernel itself.

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