[Quickfix-developers] Linux, g++ 3.3.4: Internal Compiler Errors

[James W. <wi...@wi...>]

 Folks,

   When compiling QuickFIX 1.8.0 and when compiling my applications
that use it, I'm repeatedly encountering internal compiler errors.  I
frequently see messages like:

free(): invalid pointer 0x8dcb250!
free(): invalid pointer 0x8dc9610!

   during the compiles, and often such as the following, from my
own application:

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/opt/MarketCASTDev/support/include/quickfix/SessionSettings.h: In
function `
   void __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)':
/opt/MarketCASTDev/support/include/quickfix/SessionSettings.h:62:
internal compiler error: in
   verify_local_live_at_start, at flow.c:601
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions.
For Debian GNU/Linux specific bug reporting instructions, see
<URL:file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-3.3/README.Bugs>.
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Here is an example from an attempted compile of QF 1.9.2:

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 g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I.. -g -O2
-I/usr/include/stlport -I/opt/RAIDD/db/mysql/include/mysql
-I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/include -I/include/linux -O0 -g -MT
MessagesTestCase.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/MessagesTestCase.Tpo -c
MessagesTestCase.cpp  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/MessagesTestCase.o
In file included from ../Message.h:33,
                 from MessagesTestCase.h:26,
                 from MessagesTestCase.cpp:27:
/usr/include/stlport/stl/_tree.h: In member function `typename
   _Traits::reference _STL::_Rb_tree_iterator<_Value,
_Traits>::operator*()
   const [with _Value = _STL::pair<const _STL::string, _STL::set<int,
   _STL::less<int>, _STL::allocator<int> > >, _Traits =
   _STL::_Const_traits<_STL::pair<const _STL::string, _STL::set<int,
   _STL::less<int>, _STL::allocator<int> > > >]':

Internal compiler error: Error reporting routines re-entered.
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
For Debian GNU/Linux specific bug reporting instructions, see
<URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html>.
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   Has anyone else seen this behavior?  I'm running Debian testing
(i.e. Sarge) fully up to date; g++ is at pkg version 3.3.4-13.  The
errors seem to be very random.  Sometimes, if I execute make several
times, everything will eventually compile to a working application,
but who knows if it's *really* a working application?

   I mainly see this in my own applications, but have also seen it,
more sporadically, when compiling QuickFIX itself.  Perhaps the fact
that I'm linking in and making use of some C libraries, specifically
xml2 v 2.6.11 and glib v 2.4.4, that is making the problem worse,
but I don't see any reason why I shouldn't be able to use these libs
in a C++ app.

   I'm trying to figure out if I've got a corrupted install of the
compiler that's causing this, or maybe bad RAM, or something else.
If my experience isn't unique, I'd feel a little better (I think)...

thanks,
Jim