On a little-endian Power8 with XLC-13.1.2 I see a crash not seen with gcc-4.9.2:
make[4]: Entering directory '/home/phargrov/OMPI/openmpi-2.0.0rc3-linux-ppc64el-xlc/BLD/ompi/debuggers' PASS: predefined_gap_test PASS: predefined_pad_test /home/phargrov/OMPI/openmpi-2.0.0rc3-linux-ppc64el-xlc/openmpi-2.0.0rc3/config/test-driver: line 107: 69310 Segmen tation fault (core dumped) "$@" > $log_file 2>&1 FAIL: dlopen_test gdb shows: Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. #0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install bzip2-libs-1.0.6-14.fc21.ppc64le elfutils-libelf-0.163-1.fc21.ppc64le elfutils-libs-0.163-1.fc21.ppc64le glibc-2.20-7.fc21.ppc64le libgcc-4.9.2-1.fc21.ppc64le systemd-libs-216-17.fc21.ppc64le xz-libs-5.1.2-14alpha.fc21.ppc64le zlib-1.2.8-7.fc21.ppc64le (gdb) where #0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () #1 0x00003fff82f8e8d8 in intercept_munmap (start=0x3fff82e50000, length=65536) at /home/phargrov/OMPI/openmpi-2.0.0rc3-linux-ppc64el-xlc/openmpi-2.0.0rc3/opal/mca/memory/patcher/memory_patcher_component.c:155 #2 0x00003fff82b1bc80 in __GI__IO_setb () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #3 0x00003fff82b19528 in __GI__IO_file_close_it () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #4 0x00003fff82b07f74 in fclose@@GLIBC_2.17 () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #5 0x0000000010000f7c in do_test () at /home/phargrov/OMPI/openmpi-2.0.0rc3-linux-ppc64el-xlc/openmpi-2.0.0rc3/ompi/debuggers/dlopen_test.c:97 #6 0x00000000100010e0 in main (argc=1, argv=0x3ffff7505048) at /home/phargrov/OMPI/openmpi-2.0.0rc3-linux-ppc64el-xlc/openmpi-2.0.0rc3/ompi/debuggers/dlopen_test.c:135 -- Paul H. Hargrove phhargr...@lbl.gov Computer Languages & Systems Software (CLaSS) Group Computer Science Department Tel: +1-510-495-2352 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Fax: +1-510-486-6900