http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51751
--- Comment #2 from Thomas Koenig <tkoenig at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-01-06 02:14:13 UTC --- The problem appears to be in the test routine zdrvgb, at line 639 (and following) of zdrvgb.f, where the contents of the array s contain zero for powerpc64 and very low values for x86_64: On the powerpc machine: (gdb) up #1 0x00000000100c88dc in zdrvgb (dotype=..., nn=7, nval=..., nrhs=1, thresh=30, tsterr=.TRUE., a=..., la=43692, afb=..., lafb=65472, asav=..., b=..., bsav=..., x=..., xact=..., s=..., work=..., rwork=..., iwork=..., nout=6) at zdrvgb.f:639 639 $ WORK, RWORK( 2*NRHS+1 ), INFO ) (gdb) p s $1 = () (gdb) p s(1) $2 = 0 (gdb) p s(2) $3 = 0 On the x86_64 machine: (gdb) p s(1) $2 = 8.8030696956720451e-293 (gdb) p s(0) $3 = 30 (gdb) p s(2) $4 = 7.9525381577453941e-293 (gdb) p s(3) $5 = 7.627547548164537e-293