This bug is similar to #123483 https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=123483 but this time with gcc. For details, see http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/5a642070-1a5e-11e6-b928-8293027c4940 These bugs are present starting with (at least) 5.18. (I did not get reports from 5.16. Not in 5.14 or earlier.) Hope this helps, IlyaThread Next