On Fri, 12 June 2015, at 5:03 pm, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@skynet.be> wrote: > On 06/11/2015 09:32:23 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I got curious and just did "emerge -av gnubg". It compiled and >> installed fine, and it seems to work. > > Many thanks, it turnt out to be a strange problem. > > When compiled with gcc-5.1.0 and -O2, gnubg goes into a tight loop within > memset > even before function main is entered. > > When compiled with gcc-5.1.0 and -O1, gnubg gets a segment fault from within > memset > even before function main is entered. > > When compiled with gcc-5.1.0 and -O0, it works just fine. > > Stepping back to gcc-4.9.2 it succeeds even when compiled with -O2. > > So, it looks like a compiler error of gcc-5.1.0
You should report this upstream. To gcc, I think? Stroller.
