Re: Intel mpx

[Bruno Haible]

> I was just setting up a build of gnulib with
> 
> CC="gcc -mmpx -fcheck-pointer-bounds"
> CXX="g++ -mmpx -fcheck-pointer-bounds"

The build completed. It did not report any problems, except for
test-fprintf-posix2 and test-printf-posix2, which go into an endless
SIGSEGV loop right at
  arg = atoi (argv[1]);
(apparently because the malloc() which is needed to allocate the memory
for bounds fails).

Bruno