Re: xen/i386/machdep.c compiler error

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:26:45 +0200, Quentin Garnier <cube%cubidou.net@localhost>
wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:20:28PM +0200, Juan RP wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:18:02 +0200
> > Quentin Garnier <cube%cubidou.net@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > > It's memtest time for your computer.
> > 
> > Why should it be a hw memory problem? I don't have such problems
> > with NetBSD/i386 and Windows.
> 
> gcc just doesn't randomly segfaults.  The most likely cause of such a
> behaviour really is a hardware problem.  In my experience such issues
> have always come down to that (and it manifested in much, much stranger
> ways sometimes).
> 
Yes.  I've had such problems several times -- 100% of the time,
segmentation faults in gcc were memory problems.

I recommend running http://www.memtest.org/ rather than the version in
pkgsrc.  (Someone, probably me, should package this one, too...)

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