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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Internal compiler error
Date: 17 Apr 1996 22:26:52 GMT
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karianto@iss.nus.sg (Karianto Leman) writes:

>  I recently installed FreeBSD on my PCI Pentium. During the compilation
>  of my c files, very often the CC compiler stop on "Internal compiler
>  error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11" Error code 1. When I repeat
>  the "make" command, compilation proceeds w/o problem.

You've got memory, or `cache coherency' problems.  The latter happens
if your chipset is broken wrt. bus-master DMA devices.

Try tweaking your memory timing, turning the cache into write-through,
or even turn the cache off (in this sequence).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)