Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 168812
EMBOSS execution issue with gcc-3.2.3-52.x86_64
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:08 EST
Description of problem: gcc-3.2.3-52.x86_64 can't compile a proper EMBOSS-3.0.0 version stock gcc-3.4.3 is ok Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gcc-3.2.3-52.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.wget ftp://ftp.uk.embnet.org/pub/EMBOSS/EMBOSS-3.0.0.tar.gz 2. tar xzvf EMBOSS-3.0.0.tar.gz 3. cd EMBOSS-3.0.0 ; ./configure; make 4. ./emboss/embossversion Actual results: [tru@bobo EMBOSS-3.0.0]$ ./emboss/embossversion Segmentation fault (core dumped) Expected results: [tru@sillage EMBOSS-3.0.0]$ ./emboss/embossversion Writes the current EMBOSS version number 3.0.0 Additional info:
That can very likely be application bug, the fact that it passes with one compiler and doesn't with another one doesn't say anything, the program can still be in undefined code territory. For a bug to be filed here, you need to debug it yourself and only if you prove it is compiler bug, you need to create a (small) self-contained testcase and attach it here. Alternatively, if you have Red Hat support contract, you can deal with it that way.
For what it's worth, the same behaviour is observed on 3.6beta version gcc-3.2.3-53.x86_64/glibc-devel-2.3.2-95.35.x86_64. I will try to come up with a shorter testcase.