https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58757
--- Comment #4 from Uroš Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com> --- (In reply to Marc Glisse from comment #3) > (In reply to Uroš Bizjak from comment #2) > > Well, the testcase does fail on alpha: > > Thanks. In the original testcase ( > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-09/msg00875.html ) I was xfailing on > alpha, but Joseph asked me not to xfail it until someone has actually > observed the failure. Could you please xfail it (or whatever similar option > you prefer) until this PR is addressed? (Unless you want to fix this PR, of > course ;-) Something like ... int __attribute__((noinline, noclone)) checkz (const char *ptr, int n) { for ( ; n > 0; ptr++, --n) if (*ptr != 0) return 0; return 1; } int main () { volatile float f = FLT_TRUE_MIN; volatile double d = DBL_TRUE_MIN; volatile long double l = LDBL_TRUE_MIN; if (checkz (&f, sizeof(f)) || checkz (&d, sizeof(d)) || checkz (&l, sizeof (l))) __builtin_abort (); return 0; } perhaps? This works on alpha and x86 with some compilation warnings ...