Package: gcc-3.2 Version: 1:3.2.3-0pre8 Severity: normal gcc segfaults sometimes on PPC when run with -O -Wunreachable-code
Attached code sample is from bison output. Does not seem to happen with the same version on x86. $ uname -a Linux ppcbox 2.4.20-ben10 #1 Sat Apr 12 23:30:36 EDT 2003 ppc unknown unknown GNU/Linux $ gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/powerpc-linux/3.2.3/specs Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,proto,objc,ada --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/3.2 --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-objc-gc powerpc-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 3.2.3 20030407 (Debian prerelease) $ gcc -c -O -Wunreachable-code test.c test.c: In function `yystpcpy': test.c:14: internal error: Segmentation fault Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions. char * yystpcpy(char *yydest, const char *yysrc) { char *yyd = yydest; const char *yys = yysrc; while ((*yyd++ = *yys++) != '\0') ; return yyd - 1; }