http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55988
Bug #: 55988 Summary: Incorrect code generation with const and -std=c++0x Classification: Unclassified Product: gcc Version: 4.7.2 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major Priority: P3 Component: c++ AssignedTo: unassig...@gcc.gnu.org ReportedBy: pavel.zbits...@gmail.com Created attachment 29167 --> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=29167 the preprocessed file The following code /* ---------- */ class Base { public: virtual void execute() const = 0; virtual ~Base() {} }; class Pop : public Base { public: virtual void execute() const { return; } }; const Pop pop; int main() { pop.execute(); return 0; } /* ---------- */ will be crashed if source is compiled with -std=c++0x (g++ -Wall -Wextra -std=c++0x const-0x.cpp -o const-0x). This happens because variable pop is located in read-only memory 080487f8 l O .rodata 00000004 _ZL3pop and Pop::~Pop() has the following code 0x080486ba <+6>: mov eax,DWORD PTR [ebp+0x8] => 0x080486bd <+9>: mov DWORD PTR [eax],0x80487b0 0x080486c3 <+15>: mov eax,DWORD PTR [ebp+0x8] (gdb) info registers eax eax 0x80487f8 In other words it tries to write to read-only location. For more complicated programs the following code was generated in destructor: 0xb7b66b34 <+20>: mov eax,DWORD PTR [esp+0x4] => 0xb7b66b38 <+24>: mov DWORD PTR [eax],edx 0xb7b66b3a <+26>: ret with the same consequences. System information: Linux laptop-1 3.5.0-21-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 11 18:52:46 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux g++ -v output: Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=g++ COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-linux-gnu/4.7/lto-wrapper Target: i686-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.7/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,go,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.7 --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++/4.7 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-plugin --enable-objc-gc --enable-targets=all --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=i686-linux-gnu --host=i686-linux-gnu --target=i686-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.7.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.7.2-2ubuntu1)