http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50916
Bug #: 50916 Summary: -Os, -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE breaks strcpy & others if inlined Classification: Unclassified Product: gcc Version: 4.6.2 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: other AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: dez...@gmail.com Created attachment 25665 --> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=25665 The preprocessed source Not totally sure if a glibc or gcc bug, but anyway: GCC 4.6.2 causes the following code to get into an infinite loop in strcpy if compiled with gcc -std=c99 -Os -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 #include <argp.h> #include <string.h> int main (void) { char buf[1024]; char* str = "hello"; strcpy (buf, str); return 0; } It seems that something in the #includes is pulling in the following definition for strcpy: extern __inline char * strcpy (char *__restrict __dest, const char *__restrict __src) { return __builtin___strcpy_chk (__dest, __src, __builtin_object_size (__dest, 2 > 1)); } ...and then the __builtin_strcpy_chk seems to turn back into strcpy (due to -Os?): 00000035 <strcpy>: 35: 55 push %ebp 36: 89 e5 mov %esp,%ebp 38: 5d pop %ebp 39: e9 fc ff ff ff jmp 3a <strcpy+0x5> 3a: R_386_PC32 strcpy ...which then causes the infinite loop. gcc -v: Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.6/lto-wrapper Target: i486-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 4.6.2-2' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,go --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.6 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.6 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-plugin --enable-objc-gc --enable-targets=all --with-arch-32=i586 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=i486-linux-gnu --host=i486-linux-gnu --target=i486-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.6.2 (Debian 4.6.2-2)