SIGSEGV with inline functions on Alpha - many version of egcs

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message <19981006184508.44688@ellpspace.math.ualberta.ca>you write:
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  > This report describes a problem which I filed already twice but this
  > time there are more precise details.
  > 
  > Current versions of egcs, for quite a while and including the latest
  > release and the latest snapshot but not the previous release, have
  > problems on Linux/Alpha when inline functions and -O2 optimization
  > is present.
  > 
  > System - Linux/Alpha on EB64+ board, current kernel 2.0.36(pre).  
  > 
  > An included file slhc5.i is a result of trimming down to two functions
  > only, inline __ntohs and slhc_uncompress, of an intermediate file
  > created during a compilation of Linux kernel (original source from
  > drivers/net/slhc.c).
  > 
  > The following command:
  > 
  >   ./cc1 slhc5.i -O2 -version -o slhc2.s
  > 
  > results in SIGSEGV from a compiler.  When optimization is reduced
  > to -O1, or when __ntohs is removed, then there are no compilation
  > problems.  Results from gdb seem to point out to a possibility that
  > if_then_else_cond() from combine.c goes into an infinite recursion
  > eventually running out of a stack space but I am not really sure
  > if I understand that properly.
  > 
  > I include a code file slhc5.i, results from a compilation when only
  > -O1 was used (slhcO1.s),  results from a compilation with -O2 but
  > with __ntohs deleted (slhcO2.s), and a sample trace from gdb session.
  > "Real" code contains, obviously, many other functions including
  > inline __ntohl which curiously enough does not seem be doing any harm.
Thanks for the bug report.  This seems to be working fine with recent
snapshots.

jeff