The commit at r151362 broke the default build for arm-none-eabi in newlib with the following ICE for the hard-float variant of the ABI.
/home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/newlib/libm/common/s_nextafter.c: In function ‘nextafter’: /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/newlib/libm/common/s_nextafter.c:119:1: internal compiler error: in loc_cmp, at var-tracking.c:2429 The gdb backtrace is #0 fancy_abort (file=0x88e22e8 "/home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/var-tracking.c", line=2429, function=0x88e2544 "loc_cmp") at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/diagnostic.\ c:728 #1 0x085cb959 in loc_cmp (x=0xb7d03240, y=0xb7d03230) at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/var-tracking.c:2429 #2 0x085cc333 in canonicalize_loc_order_check (slot=0x9190eb4, data=0x91b7ba8) at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/var-tracking.c:2706 #3 0x0884eb36 in htab_traverse_noresize (htab=0x9190dc8, callback=0x85cc298 <canonicalize_loc_order_check>, info=0x91b7ba8) at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/libiberty/hashtab.c:750 #4 0x085d3460 in compute_bb_dataflow (bb=0xb7c0ce40) at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/var-tracking.c:5360 #5 0x085d3994 in vt_find_locations () at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/var-tracking.c:5493 #6 0x085d8f3f in variable_tracking_main () at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/var-tracking.c:7451 #7 0x0838a929 in execute_one_pass (pass=0x8a749a0) at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/passes.c:1292 #8 0x0838abac in execute_pass_list (pass=0x8a749a0) at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/passes.c:1341 #9 0x0838abbf in execute_pass_list (pass=0x8a723a0) at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/passes.c:1342 #10 0x0838abbf in execute_pass_list (pass=0x8a72360) at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/passes.c:1342 #11 0x08494260 in tree_rest_of_compilation (fndecl=0xb7c4a380) at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/tree-optimize.c:390 #12 0x0861b6ea in cgraph_expand_function (node=0xb7cccb00) at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/cgraphunit.c:1111 #13 0x0861e1ad in cgraph_finalize_compilation_unit () at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/cgraphunit.c:1170 #14 0x080d2a8b in c_write_global_declarations () at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/c-decl.c:9378 #15 0x0843a25b in compile_file () at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/toplev.c:1050 #16 0x0843c219 in do_compile () at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/toplev.c:2372 #17 0x0843c2de in toplev_main (argc=5, argv=0xbfd764d4) at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/toplev.c:2414 #18 0x08158db2 in main (argc=Cannot access memory at address 0x0 and looking at the session in gdb (gdb) up #1 0x085cb959 in loc_cmp (x=0xb7d03240, y=0xb7d03230) at /home/ramana/cos/combined-git-master-cloned/gcc/var-tracking.c:2429 (gdb) p x $5 = (rtx) 0xb7d03240 (gdb) pr (reg:CCFP 24 cc) (gdb) p y $6 = (rtx) 0xb7d03230 (gdb) pr (reg:CCFPE 127 vfpcc) GCC was configured with --target=arm-none-eabi --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --with-cpu=cortex-a8 --with-fpu=neon --with-float-abi=softfp and the command line used on the test file was ./xgcc -B`pwd` -S -O3 -g -mfloat-abi=hard ./s_nextafter.i -- Summary: Var tracking by default breaks arm-none-eabi build of newlib Product: gcc Version: 4.5.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: rtl-optimization AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: ramana at gcc dot gnu dot org GCC build triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu GCC host triplet: i686-pc-linux-gnu GCC target triplet: arm-none-eabi http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41252