In message <20050814133111.GA767@colwyn.zhadum.de>, Matthias Scheler writes:

>2.) If the compiler dies at random locations your hardware is probably
>    faulty. In my experience random GCC segfaults are definte sign
>    for broken memory.

Indeed.  In fact, if I google for

	gcc "signal 11"

the first response talks about hardware problems.  See
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ for more info.

If you have an i386, I strongly suggest running memtest.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb