Re: strange gcc crashes...

[Josh McKinney]

> > >>     so it seems to me like kernel problem...
> > >
> > >why is that?  I've never seen a sig11 from production >code
> > >that wasn't caused by flakey ram.  in fact, your >descriptions
> > >are a perfect example of similar hardware problems.
> >
> Synthetic tests are never as good as a real good gcc run, I'd *never* 
> trust them over the indications given by attempting to compile the kernel 
> or something big like XFree86.

I agree.  I had my computer mildy overclocked for a little while.  Everything
ran just great, I could compile kernels, quake3 timedemo for two days, etc.  
All was well until I tried to compile gcc itself and I kept getting random
errors.  I finally opened up the case and bumped it back down, and like magic
it compiled just fine.  

So my advice would be to don't overclock.

Josh