On 12 May 2002, Russell Howe wrote:
Optimisation causes the compiler to use quite a bit more memory, so any memory errors are likely to trip it up. I'd run memtest on that box if I were you. You'll probably get sig11's if you try to build the kernel as well. It *could* be a gcc bug though (which I guess is why it was suggested you should checkout an older version of the file, to see what was tripping the bug, if anything). More likely hardware though.
No, he said he uses egcs 2.91, so it's more likely a gcc bug. Egcs has many bugs, one or two of which very very often turn up during Wine development.