gcc-4.5.3 segfaults wrt alloca

[Denis Excoffier <cygwin at Denis-Excoffier dot org>]

I use the latest packages and cygwin snapshots. The problem described
below began several snapshots in the past, around beginning of December.

The following program, with static allocation of a reasonable amount
of data, segfaults, maybe in alloca(). With a smaller size
(eg 10000) it's ok. With new/malloc (even with 100 times more) it's
ok. With C or C++. 100% reproducible.

Thank you for your help.

Regards,

Denis Excoffier.



% uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 %%EDITED%% 1.7.10s(0.255/5/3) 20111209 06:57:51 i686 Cygwin
% cat foo.cc
//
// /usr/bin/g++ -o foo foo.cc
//
#define DONT_USE_NEW
int main() {
//
#ifdef DONT_USE_NEW
  unsigned int const SIZE = 689471;
  int foo[SIZE];
#else
  unsigned int const SIZE = 68947100;
  int *const foo = new int [SIZE];
#endif
  for ( unsigned int i = 0 ; i < SIZE ; ++i ) {
    foo[i] = i;
  };
#ifdef DONT_USE_NEW
#else
  // missing free
#endif
  return(0);
};
% /usr/bin/g++ -o foo foo.cc
% ./foo
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
% /usr/bin/gdb ./foo
GNU gdb (GDB) 7.3.50.20111026-cvs (cygwin-special)
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This GDB was configured as "i686-cygwin".
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<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>...
Reading symbols from %%EDITED%%/foo...done.
(gdb) run
Starting program: %%EDITED%%/foo 
[New Thread 3256.0xf44]
[New Thread 3256.0x1908]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
_alloca ()
    at /gnu/gcc/releases/respins/4.5.3-3/gcc4-4.5.3-3/src/gcc-4.5.3/libgcc/../gcc/config/i386/cygwin.asm:45
45	/gnu/gcc/releases/respins/4.5.3-3/gcc4-4.5.3-3/src/gcc-4.5.3/libgcc/../gcc/config/i386/cygwin.asm: No such file or directory.
	in /gnu/gcc/releases/respins/4.5.3-3/gcc4-4.5.3-3/src/gcc-4.5.3/libgcc/../gcc/config/i386/cygwin.asm
(gdb) quit
A debugging session is active.

	Inferior 1 [process 3256] will be killed.

Quit anyway? (y or n) y
%

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