As already described in PR ada/18217, while building gnattools gnat1 gets a bus error compiling makegpr.adb:
$ ../../xgcc -c -I./ -I../rts -I. -I/vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-dist/gcc/ada -B../../ -O2 -g -O2 -gnatpg -gnata -I- /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-dist/gcc/ada/makegpr.adb +===========================GNAT BUG DETECTED==============================+ | 4.0.0 20041119 (experimental) (powerpc-apple-darwin7.6.0) Bus error | | Error detected at makegpr.adb:4159:23 | Program received signal EXC_BAD_ACCESS, Could not access memory. 0x004e9650 in initializer_zerop (init=0x4469dcc0) at /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-dist/gcc/tree.c:5834 (gdb) where #0 0x004e9650 in initializer_zerop (init=0x4469dcc0) at /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-dist/gcc/tree.c:5834 #1 0x004e97dc in initializer_zerop (init=0x4469dcc0) at /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-dist/gcc/tree.c:5870 #2 0x004e97dc in initializer_zerop (init=0x4469dcc0) at /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-dist/gcc/tree.c:5870 #3 0x004fb574 in assemble_variable (decl=0xc659a8, top_level=115, at_end=6317412, dont_output_data=1147788480) at /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-dist/gcc/varasm.c:1706 #4 0x00503118 in rest_of_decl_compilation (decl=0x4469dcc0, top_level=6317412, at_end=12999080) at /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-dist/gcc/passes.c:235 #5 0x00507bfc in expand_one_var (var=0x4469dcc0, toplevel=100 'd') at /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-dist/gcc/cfgexpand.c:559 #6 0x005094ac in tree_expand_cfg () at /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-dist/gcc/cfgexpand.c:791 #7 0x0024896c in execute_pass_list (pass=0x44698210) at /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-dist/gcc/tree-optimize.c:511 #8 0x00248ca8 in tree_rest_of_compilation (fndecl=0x0) at /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-dist/gcc/tree-optimize.c:643 #9 0x005330bc in cgraph_expand_function (node=0x44699880) at /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-dist/gcc/cgraphunit.c:822 #10 0x0053407c in cgraph_optimize () at /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-dist/gcc/cgraphunit.c:1689 #11 0x004d6528 in toplev_main (argc=12717220, argv=0xc265b4) at /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-dist/gcc/toplev.c:985 #12 0x00002584 in _start (argc=16, argv=0xbffff93c, envp=0xbffff980) at /SourceCache/Csu/Csu-47/crt.c:267 #13 0x8fe1a558 in __dyld__dyld_start () The file compiles without problems at -O0. With this change and the workaround from PR ada/18217, I was able to finish a C and Ada bootstrap. make check currently running. Environment: System: Darwin nil 7.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.6.0: Sun Oct 10 12:05:27 PDT 2004; root:xnu/xnu-517.9.4.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc host: powerpc-apple-darwin7.6.0 build: powerpc-apple-darwin7.6.0 target: powerpc-apple-darwin7.6.0 configured with: /vol/gnu/src/gcc/gcc-dist/configure --prefix=/vol/gcc/obj/gnat/4.0.0/7.6.0 --with-local-prefix=/vol/gcc/obj/gnat/4.0.0/7.6.0 --disable-nls --enable-languages=c,ada How-To-Repeat: Bootstrap as described above. -- Summary: Bus error compiling makegpr.adb on Mac OS X 10.3 Product: gcc Version: 0.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: ada AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: ro at techfak dot uni-bielefeld dot de CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org GCC build triplet: powerpc-apple-darwin7.6.0 GCC host triplet: powerpc-apple-darwin7.6.0 GCC target triplet: powerpc-apple-darwin7.6.0 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18572