Unable to launch GCC, it crashes

Question

I am using GCC 3.4.4 through Cygwin on Windows 7 x64. It has work flawlessly for a long time. Now GCC has recently stopped working with an error everytime it's launched:

gcc.exe

The NTVDM CPU has encountered a illegal instruction

CS:0000 IP0075 OP:f0 00 f0 37 05 Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.

I've tried re-installing GCC through cygwin, and i've tried adding full permissions on the file for all users.

How can this be solved?

no; they are something similar, https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cygwin#Alternatives I've used MinGW just to have the gcc on Windows, and never tried cygwin, so I cant say if MinGW can satisfy your need as cygwin; though, it was just to test if "another" gcc works or doesn't — ShinTakezou, Jul 08 '11 at 20:35
Hopefully there's just a way to fix GCC; if not, I'll just go back to VS. — KaiserJohaan, Jul 08 '11 at 20:48

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 08 '11 at 21:39

Long ago I had a similar problem which seemed to affect like every third program. After hours and hours of searching, the cause was that the Cygwin virtual volume had the mount parameters messed up. It was doing newline translation when it should not have been (or vice versa).

Unable to launch GCC, it crashes

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