Curious segmentation fault...

[Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@gmail.com>]

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Dear list,

Namaste (hello). This is my first post. I wonder if I have found a bug or at 
least an anomalous behaviour in GCC. Please download the file segfault.tar.gz 
from:

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=0D3E9B791AE99BEA

(available for seven days from now). Do make and test both monthpan and 
monthpan-bug with any date range that contains a Sunday (which is where the 
bug lies). You should find that monthpan creates an output file called 
monthpan.txt whereas monthpan-bug creates a segmentation fault at 
grahanaama[0] (grahanaama means "weekday name").

The only difference between the two source files monthpan.c and monthpan-bug.c 
is that the latter contains the line:

char spicanaama[] = "Spica";

*before* the start of the declarations of the two-dimensional arrays, which 
for some reason seems to cause the zero element of the first two-dimensional 
array to be out-of-bounds.

This problem confirmed on gcc-4.1/glibc-2.4 and gcc-3.35/glibc-2.34.

Please can anyone enlighten me as to what exactly causes this bug? Is it a bug 
with GCC? If yes, where do I report it?

Thanks.

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