GCC problem with using "-fprofile-arcs"

[Wei.Feng@sybase.com]

Hi, there:
I tried using the "-fprofile-arcs" and "-fbranch-probabilities" to build a 
profile based optimized binary, but got some complain about the .da files.

The OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 3) Kernel 
2.4.21-20.ELsmp on an x86_64
The GCC: gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-34)

I use "-fprofile-arcs' to compile and build the instrumented binary, 
command is sth. like:
gcc -c -pipe -m64 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fprofile-arcs -p -O -D... -I... 
-o treeprint.o treeprint.c 

Then run the binary, more than 900 .da file created. (A big application)

Finally, use "-fbranch-probabilities" to build again, most of the files 
got success, only 5 failed. Command is sth. like:
gcc -c -pipe -m64 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fbranch-probabilities -p -O 
-D... -I... -o treeprint.o treeprint.c 

The fail message is:
/usr/include/bits/sigset.h: At top level:
/usr/include/bits/sigset.h:119: .da file contents not exhausted
...failed Cc treeprint.o ...


I wonder if this is a known issue of GCC (A Bug)?
Or there are some limitations of using "-fprofile-arcs"? 
Such as you can not combine it with "-O", "-O2" etc. Or you can not have 
"goto" in the source files etc.?

Thanks
Wei