Here is a 16 line program that works fine without the optimizer, but prints the word "bug" with gcc -O No other flags, no headers included. Linux fedora 9. gcc -v is:
Using built-in specs. Target: i386-redhat-linux Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --enable-plugin --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-cpu=generic --build=i386-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 4.3.0 20080428 (Red Hat 4.3.0-8) (GCC) The program is: struct rating { int z: 20; unsigned char probe: 1; unsigned char val: 3; }; static struct rating foo; int main(int argc, char **argv) { foo.z = 83778; foo.probe = 0; foo.val = 4; if(foo.val > 0 && foo.val < 4) puts("bug"); else puts("ok"); } Thanks. Karl Dahlke
