GNU C++ bug report

["Peter A. Buhr" <pabuhr at plg2 dot math dot uwaterloo dot ca>]

The program below displays inconsistent behaviour. It produces different output
if the fields of class "owl" are interchanged. The problem occurs on this
environment:

   @tcl[140]% uname -a
   Linux tcl 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
   @tcl[141]% gcc -v
   Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/specs
   gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.0)

The problem does *NOT* occur with:

   @plg2[1]% gcc -v
   Reading specs from /.software/arch/gcc-2.95.2/distribution/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/2.95.2/specs
   gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)

on any OS I have access to. Nor has the problem occurred in previous versions
of gcc. I have a work-around, but it's ugly so fixing this is important for me.

Thanks in advance.

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#include <ostream.h>

class foo {
  public:
    foo();
};

foo f; // prints 1st line of output

class bar {
}; // bar

class module {
  public:
    static bar *b;
    static double storage[10];
};

foo::foo() {
    cout << module::b << endl;
};

class owl {
  public:
    int i; // interchange these two fields and get different results
    bar p;
}; // owl

double module::storage[10] = {0.0};

// should be a compile-time calculation
bar *module::b = &(((owl *)&module::storage)->p);

foo g;  // prints 2nd line of output

int main() {
}