Compiler segmentation fault in 5-08 -CURRENT

[Terrence Koeman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Doug White
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 19:09
> To: Terrence Koeman
> Cc: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: Compiler segmentation fault in 5-08 -CURRENT
> 
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Terrence Koeman wrote:
> 
> > > Can you compile a simple "hello world" program?  Sometimes
> > > these types of
> > > faults can be caused by faulty memory, processor, overclocking, or
> > > temperature issues.
> >
> > It doesn't seem hardware related. Before the update I had 
> no problems with
> > segmentation faults, and the system can take heavy load just fine.
> >
> > I tried to compile the following hello world program:
> [...]
> > helloworld.c:4: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
> 
> Ugh. Looks like your gcc binary's busted.
> 
> > Is there perhaps a way to copy over the compiler from a 
> working (older)
> > -CURRENT system and build a new world with it to see if 
> it's fixed in cvs?
> 
> You might try tracking down a recent snapshot and do an 
> 'upgrade'; that
> should overwrite your defective binary.
> 
> This problem is unique to you so you may have had a disk error or
> something that's zeroed out part of the gcc binary or cc1 or something
> important like that.

I have copied over /usr/bin/* from another working system and now I can
compile things again.

Is there anything that could create new problems when doing this?

-- 
Regards,
Terrence Koeman
 
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