bug#8217: 23.3; Runtime segmentation fault when compiled with -O2 on GNU/Linux

[Andreas Schwab]

Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> writes:

> Forwarding downstream bug: <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358177>
>
> Emacs 23.3 compiled with -O2 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu immediately fails
> with a segmentation fault at runtime. This is with GCC 4.5.2 (but it
> also fails when compiled with GCC 4.4.5 or 4.3.5).
>
>    $ emacs -Q
>    Fatal error (11)Segmentation fault
>
> The problem disappears when -fno-strict-aliasing is added to CFLAGS.

Try compiling with -Wstrict-aliasing.

Andreas.

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