http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52714
--- Comment #4 from Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd dot org> 2012-12-09 18:03:08 UTC --- Created attachment 28910 --> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=28910 preprocessed source, xz compressed I ran into this as well, native compilation on Debian/m68k: CC src/proxy-bio-unittest.o gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -g -O1 -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-all -fwrapv -fPIE -Wstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=1 -c -o src/proxy-bio-unittest.o src/proxy-bio-unittest.c src/proxy-bio-unittest.c: In function 'need_out_bytes': src/proxy-bio-unittest.c:38:5: warning: stack protector not protecting local variables: variable length buffer [-Wstack-protector] src/proxy-bio-unittest.c:60:1: internal compiler error: in fixup_reorder_chain, at cfglayout.c:877 Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/README.Bugs> for instructions. Preprocessed source stored into /tmp/ccqReOfy.out file, please attach this to your bugreport. make[2]: *** [src/proxy-bio-unittest.o] Error 1 (pbuild3928)root@ara5:/ # gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.6.real COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/m68k-linux-gnu/4.6/lto-wrapper Target: m68k-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 4.6.3-14+m68k.2' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --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 --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-libssp --enable-plugin --enable-objc-gc --disable-werror --disable-multilib --enable-checking=release --build=m68k-linux-gnu --host=m68k-linux-gnu --target=m68k-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.6.3 (Debian 4.6.3-14+m68k.2) That’s from building http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2012/12/msg00549.html