while testing ffmpeg compiled with gcc 4.3.3 from 4.3 trunk I got a lot of crashes especially in snow encoding testcase
by using: -fno-tree-dominator-opts -fno-tree-vrp -fno-dce -fno-tree-ch I get no crashes gcc 4.4 has same problems, I've already filled a bug about tree-ch, that corrupts the stack on win32 (looks like it's related to alloca()) -- Summary: a lot of crashes with tree optimizations on mingw Product: gcc Version: 4.3.3 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: critical Priority: P3 Component: tree-optimization AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: sherpya at netfarm dot it GCC build triplet: i686-pc-mingw32 GCC host triplet: i686-pc-mingw32 GCC target triplet: i686-pc-mingw32 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37750