[forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/513420]

Reverting the fix for PR38615 on the 4.3 branch lets the build succeed.

What am I trying to do:
* Build libgsf from source again on amd64 (or build libgsf svn trunk).

How am I trying to do it / steps to reproduce:
* Set up a sid environment in which to build libgsf from the Debian source
  package, e.g. in pbuilder.
* Get the libgsf source package and extract it.
* In the source directory, run
        env MALLOC_CHECK_=2 debian/rules build

What behaviour did I expect to get:
* The libgsf build runs to completion.

What behaviour did I actually get:
* The libgsf build fails during documentation generation, with messages
  similar to the following:
        creating gsf-scan
        gtk-doc: Running scanner gsf-scan
        sh: line 1: 27898 Segmentation fault      ( ./gsf-scan )
        Scan failed: 
        make[3]: *** [scan-build.stamp] Error 139
        make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/libgsf-1.14.11/build/doc'
* This behaviour is fully repeatable for me.

Notes and observations:
* "gsf-scan" is built from generated sources using gtk-doc-tools.
* To preserve the gsf-scan sources and objects, comment out the unlink line
  which removes them in /usr/bin/gtkdoc-scangobj .
* When running plain "debian/rules build" without the env MALLOC_CHECK_=2,
  the problem manifests at a later point in the build as follows:
        cd ../../doc/html && gtkdoc-mkhtml   gsf ../gsf-docs.sgml
        ../xml/text.xml:255: parser error : Input is not proper UTF-8, indicate
encoding !
        Bytes: 0xD0 0x45 0x2E 0x02
        <para>When to quote fields.</para><para>Default value: ÐE.</para>
                                                               ^
        ../xml/text.xml:255: parser error : PCDATA invalid Char value 2
        <para>When to quote fields.</para><para>Default value: ÐE.</para>
                                                                  ^
        ../xml/text.xml:279: parser error : chunk is not well balanced

        ^
        ../gsf-docs.sgml:232: parser error : Failure to process entity GsfText
            &GsfText;
                     ^
        ../gsf-docs.sgml:232: parser error : Entity 'GsfText' not defined
            &GsfText;
                     ^
        unable to parse ../gsf-docs.sgml
        make[3]: *** [html-build.stamp] Error 6
  This can be tracked back to a garbage string in the <DEFAULT> block within
  the <ARG> block for GsfOutputCsvQuotingMode in doc/gsf.args which is a
  file generated by gsf-scan. The garbage string can vary between repeated
  attempts.
* This libgsf version (1.14.11-1) has previously been built successfully on
  all architectures.
* The problem is still reproducible for me when the optimisation level is
  reduced (in debian/rules) to -O1 .
* I could not reproduce the problem in the following variations:
  * When lowering the optimisation level to -O0 .
  * Building in a 32-bit pbuilder chroot on amd64.
  * Building in a sid environment with the gcc-4.3 packages downgraded to
    the 4.3.2-1.1 versions from testing.
  * Building using CC=gcc-4.2 .
  * Building using CC=gcc-4.1 .
  * Building using CC=/usr/lib/gcc-snapshot/bin/gcc .
  which makes me suspect that the problem isn't with the (generated)
  gsf-scan sources, but with gcc's code generation.


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           Summary: [4.3 regression] wrong code building libgsf
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.4.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: middle-end
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: doko at ubuntu dot com


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39015