The enclosed example causes a segmentation fault at runtime under Cygwin. Reducing the length of pool1 by 1 allows it to run. This length looks like 2^18 less a header block so paging/memory/stack was suspected. Note this does not occur in Linux or native Windows versions of gfortran.
Setting -fmax-stack-var-size appropriately makes no difference but d:/irun/bin/gfortran -Wl,--stack=2100000 fixes the problem. -fmax-stack-var-size seems to work for non-equivalence variables but is broken for equivalenced variables - see correspondence on the list between myself and A.Pinskia dated 6-7 March 2005 under the subject: Re: Equivalence segfault in TEST_FPU.F90 Test programme and output: __________________________ program test_equivalence real*8 :: pool1(260105),pool2(1) equivalence (pool1,pool2) end program test_equivalence $ d:/irun/bin/gfortran -v test_prequi.f90 Driving: d:/irun/bin/gfortran -v test_prequi.f90 -lgfortranbegin -lgfortran Using built-in specs. Configured with: ../gcc/configure --with-mpfr=/gmp-gcc4 --with-gmp=/gmp-gcc4 -en able-languages=c,f95 --prefix=/cygdrive/d/irun Thread model: single gcc version 4.0.0 20050129 (experimental) /cygdrive/d/irun/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.0.0/f951.exe test_prequi.f90 -qui et -dumpbase test_prequi.f90 -mtune=pentiumpro -auxbase test_prequi -version -o /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/PAULTH~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/cc1r1KUq.s GNU F95 version 4.0.0 20050209 (experimental) (i686-pc-cygwin) compiled by GNU C version 4.0.0 20050131 (experimental). GGC heuristics: --param ggc-min-expand=30 --param ggc-min-heapsize=4096 as -o /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/PAULTH~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/ccK4DcrJ.o /cygdrive/c/DOCUME ~1/PAULTH~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/cc1r1KUq.s /cygdrive/d/irun/libexec/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.0.0/collect2.exe -Bdynamic --dll- search-prefix=cyg /lib/crt0.o -L/cygdrive/d/irun/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.0.0 -L /cygdrive/d/irun/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.0.0/../../.. /cygdrive/c/DOCUME~1/PAUL TH~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/ccK4DcrJ.o -lgfortranbegin -lgfortran -lgcc -lcygwin -luser32 -lkernel32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lgcc [EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/d/gfortran $ ./a Segmentation fault (core dumped) -- Summary: -fmax-stack-var-size=N not working for equivalence Product: gcc Version: 4.0.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: fortran AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: paulthomas2 at wanadoo dot fr CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org,pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20361