optimization/4570: error reading bytes from double variable

[philippe_ribet@hotmail.com]

>Number:         4570
>Category:       optimization
>Synopsis:       error reading bytes from double variable
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Oct 15 02:06:02 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     philippe_ribet@hotmail.com
>Release:        gcc version 3.0.2 20010922
>Organization:
>Environment:
Athlon processor
>Description:
gcc-3.0.1 give good result up to -O2, bad one with -O3
gcc-3.0.2 give good result without optimization, bad with -O2
May be relative to optimization recently moved from -O3 to -O2.

main()
{
  double e=0;
  e=(double)(0.5);
  printf("e=%08x%08x\n",*((int *)(((char *)(&e)))),*((int *)(((char *)(&e))+4)));
}

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