https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114148
--- Comment #3 from ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld.DE <ro at CeBiTec dot Uni-Bielefeld.DE> --- To investigate further, I've added comparison functions to a reduced version of pr106010-7b.c, with void cmp_epi8 (_Complex unsigned char* a, _Complex unsigned char* b) { for (int i = 0; i != N; i++) if (a[i] != b[i]) { printf ("cmp_epi8: i = %d: a[i].r = %x a[i].i = %x b[i].r = %x b[i].i = %x\n", i, __real__ a[i], __imag__ a[i], __real__ b[i], __imag__ b[i]); } } This shows (when using _Complex unsigned char since on Solaris, char is signed by default) cmp_epi8: i = 76: a[i].r = 0 a[i].i = 0 b[i].r = 88 b[i].i = 33 cmp_epi8: i = 77: a[i].r = 0 a[i].i = 0 b[i].r = 6 b[i].i = 8 cmp_epi8: i = 80: a[i].r = 0 a[i].i = 0 b[i].r = 3 b[i].i = 0 I've also noticed that the test result depends on the implementation of malloc used: * With Solaris libc malloc, libmalloc, and watchmalloc, the test aborts. * However, when using one of libbsdmalloc, libmapmalloc, libmtmalloc, or libumem, the test works. However, ISTM that the test is simply bogus: in avx_test * epi8_src, epi8_dst are allocated with malloc, buffer contents undefined * epi8_dst is cleared * epi8_dst is initialized from p_init * in foo_epi8, epi8_src[0] (an undefined value) is copied into first N elements of epi8_dst * epi8_dst is compared to epi8_src (with the remaining members of epi8_src still undefined) Why on earth would the rest of epi8_dst and epi8_src be identical if epi8_src was never initialized?