http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60578
--- Comment #2 from Zhendong Su <su at cs dot ucdavis.edu> --- (In reply to Andrew Pinski from comment #1) > J and n are both uninitialized so there is undefined code and the result is > different between x86 and amd64 due to different register being selected and > it just happens the amd64 one register was set to zero. So invalid set j and > n. Andrew, no, the code doesn't have any undefined behavior. If you look at the code more carefully, you'll see that neither for (; j;) m = 0; (because i = 0, so the loop body isn't executed) nor for (; n;) ; (because (c ^ 0L) < -1 is true in 64-bit, so the code returns) is executed. I think the issue is that integer promotion for "(c ^ 0L) < -1" isn't correct.