https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19852

--- Comment #6 from yjf.victor at foxmail dot com ---
According to my debugging on gdb, it failed to allocate the memory via the
`alloca()` function, and therefore resulted in Segmentation fault.

```
% gdb build/genmodes
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.gdbinit:13: Error in sourced command file:
/dev/fs/E/22/gcc/gcc-5.5.0/gcc/gdbinit.in:212: Error in sourced command file:
Command not implemented yet.
(gdb) b genmodes.c:851
Breakpoint 1 at 0x403899: file /dev/fs/E/22/gcc/gcc-5.5.0/gcc/genmodes.c, line
8
51.
(gdb) r -h
Starting program: /dev/fs/E/22/gcc/bindir/gcc/build/genmodes -h

Breakpoint 1, _Z15calc_wider_modev ()
    at /dev/fs/E/22/gcc/gcc-5.5.0/gcc/genmodes.c:851
851       sortbuf = XALLOCAVEC (struct mode_data *, max_n_modes + 1);
(gdb) n

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0083ff7a in ?? ()
(gdb)
```

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