It appears that you are spreading FUD. In a thread discussing if one line bugs could be written on purpose, it is only fitting to discuss if you demonstrated gcc's failing by using a version older than 4.2 was also on purpose.

By the way, I'm interested to know which version you used.

How am I spreading FUD? By using an older version of GCC and reporting what I saw? Should I edit my post to remove all mentions of GCC and just leave how the code is interpreted as is?

It has to be before 4.2 (you never said which version you used), which is really old. And you went to all this trouble but never occurred to you that compiler version could be a factor?

Sure it could be an honest mistake, but that's also true for Apple's bug (and the rest).