This is not something new, as I noticed it quite a few times. Reporting it now to see if you are aware of it and if we can do something about it.
We get gcc segfaults every once in a while in Travis: https://travis-ci.com/github/DPDK/dpdk/jobs/400035018#L1973 FAILED: drivers/drivers@@rte_pmd_failsafe@sha/meson-generated_.._rte_pmd_failsafe.pmd.c.o gcc -Idrivers/drivers@@rte_pmd_failsafe@sha -Idrivers -I../drivers -Idrivers/net/failsafe -I../drivers/net/failsafe -Ilib/librte_ethdev -I../lib/librte_ethdev -I. -I../ -Iconfig -I../config -Ilib/librte_eal/include -I../lib/librte_eal/include -Ilib/librte_eal/linux/include -I../lib/librte_eal/linux/include -Ilib/librte_eal/arm/include -I../lib/librte_eal/arm/include -Ilib/librte_eal/common -I../lib/librte_eal/common -Ilib/librte_eal -I../lib/librte_eal -Ilib/librte_kvargs -I../lib/librte_kvargs -Ilib/librte_telemetry/../librte_metrics -I../lib/librte_telemetry/../librte_metrics -Ilib/librte_telemetry -I../lib/librte_telemetry -Ilib/librte_net -I../lib/librte_net -Ilib/librte_mbuf -I../lib/librte_mbuf -Ilib/librte_mempool -I../lib/librte_mempool -Ilib/librte_ring -I../lib/librte_ring -Ilib/librte_meter -I../lib/librte_meter -Idrivers/bus/pci -I../drivers/bus/pci -I../drivers/bus/pci/linux -Ilib/librte_pci -I../lib/librte_pci -Idrivers/bus/vdev -I../drivers/bus/vdev -fdiagnostics-color=always -pipe -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -Wall -Winvalid-pch -Werror -O2 -g -include rte_config.h -Wextra -Wcast-qual -Wdeprecated -Wformat-nonliteral -Wformat-security -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs -Wold-style-definition -Wpointer-arith -Wsign-compare -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -Wno-missing-field-initializers -D_GNU_SOURCE -fPIC -DALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_API -DALLOW_INTERNAL_API -Wno-format-truncation -std=gnu99 -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=700 -pedantic -DLINUX -MD -MQ 'drivers/drivers@@rte_pmd_failsafe@sha/meson-generated_.._rte_pmd_failsafe.pmd.c.o' -MF 'drivers/drivers@@rte_pmd_failsafe@sha/meson-generated_.._rte_pmd_failsafe.pmd.c.o.d' -o 'drivers/drivers@@rte_pmd_failsafe@sha/meson-generated_.._rte_pmd_failsafe.pmd.c.o' -c drivers/rte_pmd_failsafe.pmd.c Segmentation fault Thanks. -- David Marchand