What caused the "Fatal error in ccfe" compilation error in the Solaris C++ compiler?

Question

I got this error message from the C++ compiler:

CC: Fatal error in ccfe: Segmentation Fault (core dumped)

What could cause it?

Answer 1

My user stack limit was very low (1MB). Since the compiler is heavily recursive, this limit as not enough. In solaris, the command for diplaying and changing this limit is ulimt. Other memory limits (virtual, heap) could cause this too.

http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5389815&tstart=0

Answer 2

I think this answer is not likely to be a long-term useful resource. Now that the original user has had their issue addressed, perhaps this question should retired. (deleted?) Otherwise someone should extract information from the forum posting and summarize it here in a way that's generally useful to people.