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From: Raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Newsgroups: gnu.g++.bug
Subject: g++ core dump from improper use of extern "C"
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Date: 5 Jan 90 10:18:18 GMT
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(version 1.36.1, vax)

Source file:

	extern "C" {
	    extern void foo (struct frob *);
	};

	struct frob {
	    int a, b;
	};

Results:

 % g++ -O -v -g -c bar.c
gcc version 1.36.1 (based on GCC 1.36)
 /mit/gnu/vaxlib/gcc-cpp -+ -v -undef -D__GNUC__ -D__GNUG__ -D__cplusplus -Dvax -Dunix -D__vax__ -D__unix__ -D__OPTIMIZE__ bar.c /usr/tmp/cc005284.cpp
GNU CPP version 1.36
 /mit/gnu/vaxlib/gcc-cc1plus /usr/tmp/cc005284.cpp -fcombine-regs -fstrength-reduce -quiet -dumpbase bar.c -g -O -version -o /usr/tmp/cc005284.s
GNU C++ version 1.36.1 (based on GCC 1.36) (vax) compiled by GNU C version 1.36.
default target switches:
bar.c:7: Segmentation violation
g++: Program cc1plus got fatal signal 11.

-- Ken