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In article <9301071447.AA12676@uk0x06.ggr.co.uk> gml4410@ggr.co.UK
(Lack Mr G M) writes:

        I wish to report a bug in gcc-2.3.3 on a SUN.

        I  have  built  gcc-2.3.3 on a Sun Sparcstation at SunOS4.1.1.  The
   configure option was "sparc-sun-sunos4.1" and I  used  CFLAGS=-O  during
   the makeing, which completed with no errors.

        The  following  simple  program dies with a segmentation fault.  It
   runs correctly with gcc-2.3.3 on an SG Indigo, with Suns own cc compiler
   (and with other c compilers on other platforms).

If there's a bug, then it's that the GCC-compiled binary on the SGI
doesn't get the segmentation fault.  Your strcpy()'s are overwriting
string constants, which are usually allocated in read-only space by
GCC (as you can see by the ".text" directives preceding the ".ascii"
directives for your string constants).  This is a deliberate design
decision which improves VM performance.  If you want to turn this
behaviour off, you can pass the "-fwritable-strings" option to GCC.
--
Simon.