weird egcs bug

[Mo McKinlay]

# What's even weirder is that a printf() will cause the loop to exit, but
# if I replace printf(...) with fprintf(stdout, ...), the program hangs.

# I've tried everything I can think of.  SGI's compiler (please don't
# think that I'm holding it up as a standard of excellence :-) builds
# an executable that doesn't hang.  egcs-2.91.66 on Solaris 2.7 builds
# an executable that doesn't hang.

Okay, I'm officially stumped. The only thing I can think of is an
optimisation bug, although I think this is quite unlikely. Perhaps varying
the -O flags when you compile might yield different results?

[Mo, who's now clutching at straws :)]

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