[Bug c/11884] Bad address passed to function with > 8 arguments

[sdowning at fame dot com]

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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11884



------- Additional Comments From sdowning at fame dot com  2003-08-11 21:08 -------
Subject: Re:  Bad address passed to function with > 8 arguments

"falk at debian dot org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

> ------- Additional Comments From falk at debian dot org  2003-08-11 20:07 -------
> The differing address doesn't seem like a bug per se to me; gcc
> might spill it, reclaim it, and then re-spill to a different place,
> although that seems unlikely.  So is there any observable wrong
> behaviour?

It's definitely a bug.  The address of the variable in the caller MUST
be the same in the caller and callee.  It IS the same address in the
non-optimized build.

If you dereference the address in gets_ptr, the program core dumps.