program crashes on startup when compiled with 'recent' gcc

[Zdeněk Sojka <zsojka at seznam dot cz>]

The following code crashes during initialization of globals. Has to be compiled by "recent" gcc snapshot - this problem first appeared sometimes between 20090611 and 20090618.

---- header.h ----------
struct A {
	static int &Init()
	{
		static int &i = *new int();
		return i;
	}

	A() { A::Init(); }
};

---- main.cpp ----------
#include "header.h"

static A a;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	return 0;
}

---- file.cpp ----------
#include "header.h"
------------------

$ g++ file.cpp main.cpp -o a.out && ./a.out
Segmentation Fault (SIGSEGV)

Attached: preprocessed files, "g++ file.ii main.ii -o a.out && ./a.out" to reproduce the problem.

The order of files passed as parameters is important.

It should be valid C++ with defined behaviour, but I am not sure about that, so I am asking here instead of opening bug report.
(note that simple "static int i; return i;" doesn't have defined behaviour for non-primitive types (afaik))

# 1 "file.cpp"
# 1 "<built-in>"
# 1 "<command-line>"
# 1 "file.cpp"
# 1 "header.h" 1
struct A {
 static int &Init()
 {
  static int &i = *new int();
  return i;
 }

 A() { A::Init(); }
};
# 1 "file.cpp" 2

# 1 "main.cpp"
# 1 "<built-in>"
# 1 "<command-line>"
# 1 "main.cpp"
# 1 "header.h" 1
struct A {
 static int &Init()
 {
  static int &i = *new int();
  return i;
 }

 A() { A::Init(); }
};
# 2 "main.cpp" 2

static A a;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
 return 0;
}