[Bug c/25309] New: ICE on initialization of a huge array

[jens dot teubner at in dot tum dot de]

GCC throws an internal compiler error when compiling the following
C99 code (gcc -std=c99 -c):

    static char * name[] = {
        [0x80000000]  = "bar"
    };

(GCC reports `internal compiler error: in tree_low_cst, at tree.c:3318'.)

I realize that the above code is quite stupid, as I request the compiler
to create an array of huge size.  However, I think GCC should not throw
an internal compiler error.  For smaller values of the array index, GCC
correctly reports `error: size of variable 'name' is too large'.

I have reproduced the problem with GCC 3.4.4 (Gentoo Linux) and GCC
3.3.5 (SuSE 9.3), both on Intel Pentium M.


-- 
           Summary: ICE on initialization of a huge array
           Product: gcc
           Version: 3.4.4
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: c
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: jens dot teubner at in dot tum dot de
 GCC build triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu
  GCC host triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu
GCC target triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25309