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[Bug middle-end/48377] [4.6 regression] miscompilation at -O3
- From: "matt at use dot net" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 03:53:25 +0000
- Subject: [Bug middle-end/48377] [4.6 regression] miscompilation at -O3
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- References: <bug-48377-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/>
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48377
--- Comment #5 from Matt Hargett <matt at use dot net> 2011-04-05 03:53:19 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> Anyway, please read http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html, there is nothing we can do
> from the information you've provided. Trying to find from a vague description
> of where you see the crash a difference in assembly is very hard, plus it may
> very well be just a bug in the sources you are compiling. If -O2 works and -O3
> doesn't, try to add __attribute__((noinline)) resp.
> __attribute__((optimize(2)))
> resp. __attribute__((optimize(3))) to various suspect routines in the file to
> try to narrow it down to a single problematic routine (perhaps with some
> functions inlined into it), which will work fine if the whole file is compiled
> with -O3 just that routine is -O2 (and perhaps functions inlined into it) and
> will misbehave if everything is compled with -O2 just that function is compiled
> with -O3. Then try to make a self-contained executable testcase out of it
> (just call that routine from some other CU's main, perhaps with the minimal
> necessary setup for it and stub everything it calls. For (suspected)
> miscompilation we really need to be able to reproduce it ourselves, preferrably
> with a minimal testcase, otherwise we can't do anything on it unless you debug
> the problem yourself down to pointing a bug somewhere exact in the assembly.
I've got a greatly reduced testcase that I'm continuing to pare down. I'll
attach the self-contained example tomorrow.