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### If the compiler crashes ...

If the compiler crashes, you have discovered a bug. A reliable compiler never crashes. To help the maintainers fix this bug, it is important that you send us a problem report.

If you're on Unix, you can find out where the compiler crashed if you enable coredumps, then load the compiler (`gpc1`) plus the core file in the debugger (`gdb /your_path_here/gpc1 core`), then type `backtrace` to get a stacktrace. Include this stacktrace in your bug report.