current CVS version aborts in size_binops compiling Linux kernel

[Horst von Brand]

Philipp Thomas <pthomas@suse.de> said:
> gcc version 2.96 20000302 (experimental) aborts while compiling
> linux/fs/isofs/namei.c with: 

[...]

> namei.c:206: Internal compiler error in `size_binop', at fold-const.c:1873

I traced this to stuff like:

struct {
       char a[10];
} *p;

f()
{
    int i;

    return p->a[-i];
}

Sure enough, egcs-20000228 on sparc-redhat-linux crashes the same way as it
does at home on i686-redhat-linux and as it does for you.

egcs-20000221 works fine.
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