What is this GCC error on Linux, and how do I solve it? gcc: internal compiler error: Illegal instruction (program as)

Question

I type gcc hello.c and this appears:

gcc: internal compiler error: Illegal instruction (program as)
Please submit a full bug report,
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Answer 1

Got it! I uninstalled gcc, installed gcc-4.7, and ... nothing.

I cleared out the end of gcc-4.6 and re-ran sudo apt-get install gcc-4.7 and ... nothing.

I updated binutils and ... it worked!

So, as didn't appear to be affected by updating GCC, but updating it more directly did it for me.

(It was from 2.22-7.1 to 2.22-8, if that helps anyone.)