On 11/2/06, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gaurav Jain writes:
> Hi,
>
> While compiling the piece of code at the end of this mail, I'm getting
> an "Internal Compiler Error". I'm using GCC 4.1.0 on Fedora Core,
> Kernel 2.6.15-1.
>
> This error only occurs with '-g' option. Also, gcc 3.2 works fine
> with the same program.
>
> Is this a known bug in GCC 4.1?
It's a bug; I can't tell if it's the same bug as those already known.
> Is there a workaround that I could use such that the code compiles
> with gcc 4.1?
Well, it's very weird code. Why is u static, anyway?
Well this is just a little snippet form an existing codebase. As you
mentioned, 'u' need not be static, and in fact if I remove the static
keyword the error disappears!
Andrew.
> /*----- code follows ------*/
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> if (sizeof(long) == 8)
> {
> volatile static union {
> int i;
> char c[8];
> } u;
>
> int big_endian = (u.c[0] == 0x01 || u.c[1] == 0x02);
> }
> return 0;
> }
> /*--- code ends ------- */
