weirdo panic

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

While compiling libc I got the following panic (note that I wasn't
doing any funky things at all, just had libc compiling):

Kernel General protection trap, eip 0x1403b8
kernel trap, type 13, code = 14
Dump of i386_saved_state 15d1cf28:
EAX 00000017 EBX 0000000d ECX 15d1cfff EDX 0000001c
ESI 010d96d3 EDI 14ea6a30 EBP 15d1cf98 ESP 0013e0eb
CS 0008 SS 96d3 DS 0010 ES 0010 FS 001f GS 0027
v86:            DS 6000 ES 0017 FS 0005 GS 0005
EIP 001403b8 EFLAHS 00010202
trapno 13: General protection, error 00000014
panic: trap
In tight loop: hit ctl-alt-del to reboot

The only non-standard thing about the setup was that the filesystem
that I was compiling on was using Ogi's latest snapshot of the ext2fs
translator.