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3.17. gcc

Updated gcc packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The gcc packages provide compilers for C, C++, Java, Fortran, Objective C, and Ada 95 GNU, as well as related support libraries.

Bug Fixes

BZ#799592: Due to corruption of internal GCC structures, GCC could terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault when compiling a certain code with optimizations and coverage options enabled, causing the Garbage Collector to fail. The related GCC code has been fixed and the crash no longer occurs.
BZ#901750: GCC could terminate unexpectedly when compiling a code with arithmetics on TI mode (16-byte integer mode) values on AMD64 and Intel 64 architectures. The relevant GCC code has been fixed so that the crash no longer occurs. Note that the 128-bit integer support in GCC version 4.1 has several deficiencies; this support is better implemented in the gcc44 packages.
BZ#1008819: Previously, GCC could terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault when compiling a code that initializes nested structures which define a type of an array of structures (using typedef). A fix has been applied and GCC now compiles such code correctly.

Users of gcc are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.