Hi, this is the bootstrap failure reported for the 7 branch on SPARC64/Solaris: Comparing stages 2 and 3 Bootstrap comparison failure! gcc/go/parse.o differs make[2]: *** [compare] Error 1 On Solaris, the bootstrap is usually an old-style bootstrap, meaning that the debug info is generated during stage2 & stage3 so the comparison also involves the debug info, unlike on Linux. This can be emulated on Linux by configuring --with-build-config=no and indeed you get the comparison failure there too: Target: x86_64-suse-linux Configured with: /home/eric/svn/gcc-7.2.0/configure --build=x86_64-suse-linux --prefix=/home/eric/install/gcc-7.2.0 --enable-languages=c,c++,go --enable- __cxa_atexit --disable-nls --with-build-config=no Thread model: posix gcc version 7.2.0 (GCC) make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/eric/build/gcc-7.2.0' Comparing stages 2 and 3 Bootstrap comparison failure! gcc/go/parse.o differs Makefile:24421: recipe for target 'compare' failed make[2]: *** [compare] Error 1 The difference is: 35 .debug_info 0016367a 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0001faf8 2**0 CONTENTS, RELOC, READONLY, DEBUGGING 35 .debug_info 00163670 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0001faf8 2**0 CONTENTS, RELOC, READONLY, DEBUGGING .byte 0 ! end of children of DIE 0x161dbc .byte 0 ! end of children of DIE 0x161d9c .byte 0 ! end of children of DIE 0x161d5b - .byte 0xf2,0x1 ! uleb128 0xf2; (DIE (0x161dd2) DW_TAG_ptr_to_member_type) - .uaword 0x10445d ! DW_AT_containing_type - .uaword 0x14806e ! DW_AT_type - .byte 0xa5,0x1 ! uleb128 0xa5; (DIE (0x161ddc) DW_TAG_subprogram) + .byte 0xa5,0x1 ! uleb128 0xa5; (DIE (0x161dd2) DW_TAG_subprogram) .uaword 0x146733 ! DW_AT_abstract_origin It's a garbage collection issue similar to https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2016-10/msg00541.html but for build_offset_type instead of build_complex_type. It's called from the get_debug_type langhook in C++: tree cp_get_debug_type (const_tree type) { if (TYPE_PTRMEMFUNC_P (type) && !typedef_variant_p (type)) return build_offset_type (TYPE_PTRMEMFUNC_OBJECT_TYPE (type), TREE_TYPE (TYPE_PTRMEMFUNC_FN_TYPE (type))); return NULL_TREE; } Since the OFFSET_TYPEs created there are not attached to any GC root, they are swept by every collection, meaning that the contents of the debug info depends on the actual collection points. The proposed fix is to build OFFSET_TYPEs manually instead. As witnessed by the change to g++.dg/debug/dwarf2/ref-3.C, this generates more DIEs in the debug info, but DW_TAG_ptr_to_member_type DIEs only contain 10 bytes. Bootstrapped on x86-64/Linux & SPARC64/Solaris, OK for mainline and 7 branch? 2017-09-02 Eric Botcazou PR bootstrap/81926 * cp-objcp-common.c: Include stor-layout.h. (cp_get_debug_type): Build OFFSET_TYPEs manually. 2017-09-02 Eric Botcazou * g++.dg/debug/dwarf2/ref-3.C: Adjust DW_TAG_ptr_to_member_type count. -- Eric Botcazou