throwing from (singleton) constructor gives segmentation fault

[aitors2005]

Hi, the following program gets a segmentation fault. It works OK on another machine (g++ (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)).

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <stdexcept>

using namespace std;

class A {
public:
  // Singleton
  static A & instance();

private:
  A() {
 throw std::runtime_error("throw\n");
  }

};

A & A::instance() {
  static A inst;
  return inst;
}

int main () {

  const A & a = A::instance();

  return 0;
}

% g++ -o foo foo.cc
% ./foo
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error'
  what(): throw

Aborted (core dumped)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: g++ 4:4.6.3-1ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-27.43-generic-pae 3.2.21
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-27-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 17 15:39:58 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
SourcePackage: gcc-defaults
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-06-06 (103 days ago)