Seth Kurtzberg
Simon, you'll never give up. The crashes are absolutely repeatable. The fact that I haven't identified a deterministic way to reproduce them does not in any way imply that a deterministic way to reproduce them does not exist. And, as I've said, you are essentially claiming that a total of over 100 machines all have the same hardware problem, that never ever occurs unless gcc is running. You know that isn't true. You can, on the same machines, compile the same code with a different compiler hundreds of times (which I did; I left it running on two machines for a month) without a single problem. That is a software problem.
OK, calm down. I, for one, suggested the possibility of a hardware fault because your original message on the subject of gcc crashes did not mention the possibility at all, and I thought perhaps it was a factor you had not considered. Obviously you have indeed considered it in quite some detail, and concluded that hardware is not a factor here. But because we didn't know that, the suggestion was intended to help you explore new avenues to tracking down the fault, not to annoy you. Regards, Malcolm