[erlang-questions] Error building R12B-4 on SPARC T1

[Mikael Pettersson]

Vance Shipley writes:
 > New T1000, new Solaris 10 5/09, new Erlang R13B01, same problem.
 > 
 > I can't be the only one experiencing this.
 > 
 > 	-Vance
 > 
 > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:31:11AM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
 > }  Vance Shipley writes:
 > }   > Building R12B-4 is failing for me on a Sun T1000 server:
 > }   > 
 > }   >    gcc  -g  -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer
 > }   >    -I/usr/local/src/otp_src_R12B-4/erts/sparc-sun-solaris2.10
 > }   >    -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -DERTS_SMP -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
 > }   >    -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes
 > }   >    -Wdeclaration-after-statement -DUSE_THREADS -D_THREAD_SAFE -D_REENTRANT
 > }   >    -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS -Wa,-xarch=v8plusa -Ibeam -Isys/unix
 > }   >    -Isys/common -Isparc-sun-solaris2.10/opt/smp -Isparc-sun-solaris2.10
 > }   >    -Izlib -Ipcre -Ihipe -I../include/internal
 > }   >    -I../include/internal/sparc-sun-solaris2.10 -c beam/erl_bif_info.c -o
 > }   >    obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/opt/smp/erl_bif_info.o
 > }   >    gcc: Internal error: Segmentation Fault (program cg)
 > }   >    Please submit a full bug report to
 > }   >     <URL:http://forum.java.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=905>.
 > }   >    make[3]: *** [obj/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/opt/smp/erl_bif_info.o] Error 1
 > }   >    make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/otp_src_R12B-4/erts/emulator'
 > }   >    make[2]: *** [opt] Error 2
 > }   >    make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/otp_src_R12B-4/erts/emulator'
 > }   >    make[1]: *** [smp] Error 2
 > }   >    make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/otp_src_R12B-4/erts'
 > }   >    gmake: *** [emulator] Error 2
 > }   > 
 > }   > This is using SUNWgccfss v4.2.0 although it failed identically with v4.0.3.
 > }   > I did submit a bug report to Sun as suggested.

An ICE in gcc is _always_ a bug in that gcc (or in rare cases a HW or OS bug).
Report it to Sun.