Bug#461528: gcc-4.3 ICE while compiling VLC media player

[Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@simphalempin.com>]

Package: gcc-4.3
Version: 4.3-20080116-1
Severity: important


        Hello,

Trying to compile the VLC source tree with gcc-4.3 appears to cause an
infinite loop during compilation. At least, cc1 keeps burning the whole
CPU for over 20 minutes whereby gcc-4.2 succeeds after a few seconds.

# gcc-4.3 -c h264-precomp.c -g -O2 -ffast-math -funroll-loops -fPIC

The faulty (precompiled) source file is available here:
http://www.remlab.net/files/divers/h264-precomp.c

Regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (100, 'unstable'), (100, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.23.13 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gcc-4.3 depends on:
ii  binutils            2.18.1~cvs20080103-1 The GNU assembler, linker and 
bina
ii  cpp-4.3             4.3-20080116-1       The GNU C preprocessor
ii  gcc-4.3-base        4.3-20080116-1       The GNU Compiler Collection (base
ii  libc6               2.7-6                GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1             1:4.3-20080116-1     GCC support library
ii  libgmp3c2           2:4.2.2+dfsg-1       Multiprecision arithmetic library
ii  libgomp1            4.3-20080116-1       GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library
ii  libmpfr1ldbl        2.3.0.dfsg.1-2       multiple precision floating-point

Versions of packages gcc-4.3 recommends:
ii  libc6-dev                     2.7-6      GNU C Library: Development 
Librari

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