From: softbrek AT POOL DOT Informatik DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE
Subject: Re: c++ protection faults [was: no subject given1]
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 13:24:01 +0100 (MET)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)

> 
> > I tried to install the g++  version properly and tried to
> > compile a litte c++ file.
> > I used the command line "gcc (g++ works only on Sparcs ?) -v  fcube.cpp 
> > -ofcube".
> > The result was a General Protection Fault and a screen dump thereof is in the file I append.
> 
> Care to post the source?  Also, you might consider to
> upgrade to GCC 2.6.3 which was uploaded to SimTel about
> a week ago.  2.6.0 would sometimes GP fault on a
> syntactically correct program.
> 

Wasn't the problem that it segfaulted on syntactically wrong programs, i.e. it died
when it wanted to emit certain compiler error messages or warnings?

Hans-Bernhard