http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48534
--- Comment #1 from Daniel Krügler <daniel.kruegler at googlemail dot com> 2011-04-11 07:40:56 UTC --- I would like to add that the "silent-death" behaviour seems to be an unfortunate behaviour of my Cygwin environment. In non-Cygwin environments that program provokes a compiler segmentation fault, thus the problem is real, but the description of the observable behaviour possibly misleading.