http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58340
--- Comment #23 from Jeffrey A. Law <law at redhat dot com> --- Obviously in a bootstrap comparison failure we have a situation where the compiler has mis-compiled itself or something similar. Ultimately I need to be able to reproduce the failure. So far I've been unable to do so on the ia64 boxes I have direct access to. Note I'm just doing a "configure; make", so if you're using different options, I'd need to know about those. Alternate approaches would be for you to make a box available which exhibits the problem or for you to help more with the debugging by identifying what file/module is getting mis-compiled. As you probably know, it's rarely the file showing the comparison failure.