https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82939
--- Comment #9 from rguenther at suse dot de <rguenther at suse dot de> --- On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, egallager at gcc dot gnu.org wrote: > https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82939 > > --- Comment #8 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> --- > (In reply to Eric Gallager from comment #7) > > It works when I use a previous version of gcc I built myself though. (8.0 > > from 20170525) > > Regardless of the fact that I was able to work around this bug, I'm still > wondering why those periods need to be printed in the first place? Would it > break anything to just remove that loop? I suspect so. I don't think the loop is in any way relevant - it just is the place where the stage1 miscompile manifests?