Re: Could someone tell me what is wrong here?

[Brian Budge <brian dot budge at gmail dot com>]

I haven't done an in-depth analysis of your code, but I noticed that
in my own code, that casting a bool to an integer type did not always
yield 0 or 1 (I believe this was new in 4.5x).  I ended up changing
from
 += (uint32_t)mybool
to
 += mybool ? 1 : 0

Does this help in your code?

  Brian

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Máté Soós <soos.mate@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I maintain a program and I seemed to have stumbled into some bug of
> either the program or gcc. Thanks to Vegard Nossum, we have a really
> small (101 lines, most of them empty) example to reproduce it. The bug
> appears when I compile the program with gcc 4.5.1 (I believe it
> appears for 4.5.0 and 4.5.2 as well), with -O2. The program is meant
> to print "success", but when compiled with -O2 it returns "failure",
> while for -O0 works fine. The file is available here:
>
> http://planete.inrialpes.fr/~soos/gcc/
>
> as "Main.cpp" and "compile.sh".
>
> Machine it is compiled on:
> distribution: Fedora Core 14
> gcc --version: gcc (GCC) 4.5.1 20100924 (Red Hat 4.5.1-4)
> uname -a: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 #1 SMP Mon
> Oct 18 23:56:17 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> This bug seemed to have been triggered in the original (>13'000 LOC)
> program by multiple people, using multiple 4.5.X versions, on
> different computers&distributions.
>
> Does anyone know why I get this bug? Could anyone confirm that this
> the bug triggers on their architecture, distribution, and compiler
> version (only >= 4.5.0 seems to be affected)?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Mate
>
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