re debugging possible hardware problems i suspect the external cache but i have no real evidence for this suggestions about the cause of the problem bad memory bad motherboard bad cache suggestions about how to debug the problem turn off cache gcc and other big programs seemed to crash about of the time for me gcc gave something like program as got fatal signal and when doing anything past the complexity of elvis kermit etc i got kernel general protection faults at least once a session i disabled my cache as suggested and bingo linux is as stable as a rock it hasn t given me a core dump or kernel error yet does any one know why the cache would do something like this aldy hernandz andrews edu if programmers are paid by the hour how do you suppose the array x is initialized more programming pearls
