This patch http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-11/msg00141.html
triggers uninitialized read of stack register on x86. The testcase is # cat foo.f90 MODULE foo CONTAINS SUBROUTINE SWPARA(IU, JU, IIL, JJL, XI, YJ, XALB, kts,kte) INTEGER, INTENT(IN ) :: kts,kte INTEGER, INTENT(IN ) :: IU, JU, IIL, JJL REAL, INTENT(IN ) :: XI, YJ REAL, INTENT(OUT) :: XALB REAL, DIMENSION( 4, 5 ) :: ALBTAB DATA ALBTAB/0.,0.,0.,0., & 69.,58.,40.,15., & 90.,80.,70.,60., & 94.,90.,82.,78., & 96.,92.,85.,80./ XALB = 0.0 DO 200 K=kts,kte ALBA=(ALBTAB(IU,JU)*(XI-IIL)*(YJ-JJL) & +ALBTAB(IIL,JU)*(IU-XI)*(YJ-JJL) & +ALBTAB(IU,JJL)*(XI-IIL)*(JU-YJ) & +ALBTAB(IIL,JJL)*(IU-XI)*(JU-YJ)) & /((IU-IIL)*(JU-JJL)) XALB = ALBA - XALB 200 CONTINUE END SUBROUTINE SWPARA END MODULE foo # gfortran -O2 -S -o bad.s foo.f90 -da shows (insn:TI 55 147 171 3 (set (reg:SF 8 st) (mult:SF (reg:SF 8 st) (reg:SF 11 st(3)))) 416 {*fop_sf_comm_i387} (nil) (nil)) But SF 11 is never initialized. -- Summary: [4.3 regression]: fwprop triggers uninitialized read Product: gcc Version: 4.3.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: target AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: hjl at lucon dot org GCC target triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29900