http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47435
Summary: [4.6 Regression] ICE: SIGSEGV in c_finish_case (c-typeck.c:8859) on invalid code Product: gcc Version: 4.6.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: zso...@seznam.cz Created attachment 23097 --> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=23097 reduced testcase Compiler output: $ gcc testcase.c testcase.c: In function 'foo': testcase.c:5:5: error: a label can only be part of a statement and a declaration is not a statement testcase.c:5:5: error: unknown type name 'x' testcase.c:6:3: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '}' token testcase.c:4:5: error: label at end of compound statement ==28038== Invalid read of size 8 ==28038== at 0x513058: c_finish_case (c-typeck.c:8859) ==28038== by 0x535EF4: c_parser_statement_after_labels (c-parser.c:4626) ==28038== by 0x5372A7: c_parser_compound_statement_nostart (c-parser.c:4109) ==28038== by 0x538838: c_parser_compound_statement (c-parser.c:3946) ==28038== by 0x534F0A: c_parser_declaration_or_fndef (c-parser.c:1719) ==28038== by 0x539F8D: c_parser_external_declaration (c-parser.c:1332) ==28038== by 0x53AB67: c_parse_file (c-parser.c:1220) ==28038== by 0x574804: c_common_parse_file (c-opts.c:1071) ==28038== by 0x8DD507: toplev_main (toplev.c:579) ==28038== by 0x62FEBBC: (below main) (in /lib64/libc-2.11.2.so) ==28038== Address 0x0 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd ==28038== testcase.c:6:3: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions. Output - 4.5: $ gcc testcase.c testcase.c: In function 'foo': testcase.c:5:5: error: 'x' undeclared (first use in this function) testcase.c:5:5: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in testcase.c:5:7: error: expected ';' before 'y' The diagnostics given by 4.5 was probably more helpful. Tested revisions: r169155 - crash 4.5 r168785 - OK