If you compile the attached file without optimization, it runs fine. However, if you compile with -O, then you get:
$ ~/Devel/GCC/local/4.6/bin/g++-4.6 -g -O crash.C -o crash --save-temps $ ./crash terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc' what(): std::bad_alloc Aborted Interestingly, 4.5 works fine. The version of 4.6 is revision 164339. $ ~/Devel/GCC/local/4.6/bin/g++-4.6 -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=/home/bredelings/Devel/GCC/local/4.6/bin/g++-4.6 COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/home/bredelings/Devel/GCC/local/4.6/libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.0/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with: ../gcc-trunk/configure --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --prefix=/home/bredelings/Devel/GCC/local/4.6 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --disable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-plugin --enable-gold --with-plugin-ld=ld.gold --with-tune=generic --disable-werror --enable-checking=yes --program-suffix=-4.6 Thread model: posix gcc version 4.6.0 20100916 (experimental) (GCC) The version of 4.5 is: $ g++-4.5 -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=/usr/bin/g++-4.5 COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.5.1/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 4.5.1-5' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.5/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.5 --enable-shared --enable-multiarch --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.5 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-plugin --enable-gold --with-plugin-ld=ld.gold --enable-objc-gc --with-arch-32=i586 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.5.1 (Debian 4.5.1-5) The crash seems to result from using the wrong location for SuperModel2::object in the generated copy constructor. -- Summary: Incorrect copy constructor generated with -O Product: gcc Version: 4.6.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: middle-end AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: bredelin at ucla dot edu GCC build triplet: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu GCC host triplet: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu GCC target triplet: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45699