Subject: bug#29464: gcc-7 breaks guile-2.2.2?

From: Dan Kegel <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 20:17:59 -0800

Building guile-2.2.2 seems fine on Ubuntu 17.04, but fails with

Warning: Unwind-only `out-of-memory' exception; skipping pre-unwind handler.
FAIL: test-out-of-memory
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1 of 39 tests failed
Please report to [email-masked]

on Ubuntu 17.10.  libgc is the same version on both, but gcc is different...
and if I pick gcc-6 on ubuntu 17.10 (instead of the default gcc-7),
it seems to succeed.

Mentioned at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/guile-2.2/+bug/1734575
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-user/2017-11/msg00062.html
Possibly related to
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-11/msg00016.html