Re: [Mingw-users] Re: Internal compiler error when cross compilingwxAll-2.3.4 with mingw32 under NetBSD 1.6

[Joerg B. <jo...@sq...>]

A Happy New Year to all of you!

Greg Chicares wrote:
> 
> [...]
> >
> > >On Monday 30 December 2002 19:16, Matthew Aldous wrote:
> > >
> > >>I've recently tried to cross compile wxAll-2.3.4 from
> > >>http://www.wxwindows.org
> > >>with mingw32 under NetBSD 1.6, and received the following error during
> > >>
> > >>Creating library file: lib/libwx_msw-2.3-i386-mingw32.dll.a
> > >>i386-mingw32-c++: Internal compiler error: program ld got fatal signal 11
> 
> I don't know what signal 11 is. [...]

The number 11 (eleven) is the numeric code for "segmentation violation" 
(at least on all Unix systems I ever met, including Linux), also called 
"SIGSEGV". Typically, the OS sends this signal to an application process 
if that process tries to access a (virtual) address which is not in its 
address space - IOW, uses an invalid pointer. This could be due to a 
program error or corrupted data.

With a standard program (like compiler and linker), the more likely 
reason is a hardware error (location storing the pointer returns 
wrong contents). There is a FAQ about that: 
    http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/

Regards, 
Joerg Bruehe

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