>On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 02:30:26AM -0400, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> Daniel Eggert <danieleggert@mac.com> writes:
>> > ld also sometimes gets a signal 11. Signal 4 is SIGILL: 'illegal
>> > instruction' and signal 11 is SIGSEGV: 'segmentation violation'.
>> 
>> : Signal 11s are a symptom of hardware memory failures.
>> 
>> : Perry
>> 
>> I think NMI is likely to result from hardware memory failure.
>> 
>> But segment violations can result from software errors, and I don't think this
>
>It can, but it this case it would not happen at random place, with different
>signals.

Sounds like running memtest86 on the box might be in order to verify the 
memory is bad....

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