Problem compiling with g++/libc6

[Prashanth Mundkur <mundkur@ece.uci.edu>]

Can someone figure this out? The most trivial C++ program
crashes. (  main(){} )

The link between the compiler and libc6 seems fishy.
I have a slink system, with both libstdc++2.8 and
libstdc++2.9.

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wintermute:test >g++ --version 
egcs-2.90.27 980315 (egcs-1.0.2 release)

wintermute:test >cat /etc/debian_version 
2.1

wintermute:test >cat a.cc
main()
{
}

wintermute:test >g++ -o a a.cc
wintermute:test >a
Segmentation fault
wintermute:test >ldd a
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4000b000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40024000)
        ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x400c9000)
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The debugger points at libc6:


wintermute:test >gdb a.out
GNU gdb 4.17.m68k.objc.threads.hwwp.fpu.gnat
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This GDB was configured as "i486-pc-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb) break main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048537
(gdb) run
Starting program:
/home/mundkur/qtplot/plot-0.00/test/a.out
(no debugging symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x400d291f in ?? () from /lib/libc.so.6

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But, this works:

wintermute:test >egcc --version 
egcs-2.91.60 
wintermute:test>egcc -o a a.cc 
wintermute:test >a
wintermute:test >ldd a
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40010000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)


Any (non-null :-) pointers appreciated.

--prashanth