(In reply to Dr. Werner Fink from comment #8) > Hmm ... the transformation might be correcti(?), but how should libsigsegv > catch the first segmentation fault (and only this), if the check is moved in > the resulting assembler instructions out of the way? Would the volatile > attribute for handler_called help here? I would recommend to use a memory barrier: asm volatile("" ::: "memory"); More informations: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14950614/working-of-asm-volatile-memory > > Btw: IMHO we need an HOWTO for debugging link time optimized programs within > gdb. This because with LTO the core dumps from users/customers become rather > useless (IMHO).