------- Comment #2 from r dot schuerer at gmx dot at 2008-03-11 15:23 ------- The assembler code for f() (as listed by "objdump -d a.out") is as follows:
0804838c <f>: 804838c: 55 push %ebp 804838d: 89 e5 mov %esp,%ebp 804838f: b8 01 00 00 00 mov $0x1,%eax 8048394: 83 7d 0c 00 cmpl $0x0,0xc(%ebp) 8048398: 75 12 jne 80483ac <f+0x20> 804839a: 8b 45 08 mov 0x8(%ebp),%eax 804839d: 0f b7 40 02 movzwl 0x2(%eax),%eax 80483a1: 66 33 00 xor (%eax),%ax 80483a4: 30 e0 xor %ah,%al 80483a6: 0f 9b c0 setnp %al 80483a9: 0f b6 c0 movzbl %al,%eax 80483ac: 5d pop %ebp 80483ad: c3 ret GDB says that: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x080483a1 in f () -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35540
