Example libpq program fails when built with mingw ld-2.15.91 on WinXP (but not ld-2.13.90)

I have a slightly modified version of one of the example C programs
from the help docs. When built with gcc-3.4.2/ld-2.13.90 under MingW
on WinXP it works as expected. When linked with ld-2.15.91 (or later;
same gcc) it segfaults on the first call to PGprepare. Does anyone
else have this problem, or can you reproduce?

Alistair

File: test.c

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "libpq-fe.h"

static void exit_nicely(PGconn *conn)
{
PQfinish(conn);
exit(1);
}

void check_error(PGconn *conn, PGresult *res, ExecStatusType rc, char *msg)
{
if (PQresultStatus(res) != rc)
{
/* fprintf(stderr, msg, PQerrorMessage(conn)); */
fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s\n", msg, PQerrorMessage(conn));
PQclear(res);
exit_nicely(conn);
}
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
const char *conninfo;
PGconn *conn;
PGresult *res;
int nFields;
int i,
j;
Oid paramTypes[10];

/*
* If the user supplies a parameter on the command line, use it as the
* conninfo string; otherwise default to setting dbname=postgres and using
* environment variables or defaults for all other connection parameters.
*/
if (argc > 1)
conninfo = argv[1];
else
conninfo = "dbname = postgres";

/* Make a connection to the database */
conn = PQconnectdb(conninfo);

/* Check to see that the backend connection was successfully made */
if (PQstatus(conn) != CONNECTION_OK)
{
fprintf(stderr, "Connection to database failed: %s",
PQerrorMessage(conn));
exit_nicely(conn);
}

/* my test case... */
res = PQprepare(conn, "x", "DECLARE myportal CURSOR FOR select *
from pg_database", 0, paramTypes);
check_error(conn, res, PGRES_COMMAND_OK, "Prepare failed");

/*
* Our test case here involves using a cursor, for which we must be inside
* a transaction block. We could do the whole thing with a single
* PQexec() of "select * from pg_database", but that's too trivial to make
* a good example.
*/

/* Start a transaction block */
res = PQexec(conn, "BEGIN");
check_error(conn, res, PGRES_COMMAND_OK, "BEGIN command failed");

/*
* Should PQclear PGresult whenever it is no longer needed to avoid memory
* leaks
*/
PQclear(res);

/*
* Fetch rows from pg_database, the system catalog of databases
*/
res = PQexec(conn, "DECLARE myportal CURSOR FOR select * from pg_database");
check_error(conn, res, PGRES_COMMAND_OK, "DECLARE CURSOR failed");
PQclear(res);

res = PQexec(conn, "FETCH ALL in myportal");
check_error(conn, res, PGRES_TUPLES_OK, "FETCH ALL failed");

/* first, print out the attribute names */
nFields = PQnfields(res);
for (i = 0; i < nFields; i++)
printf("%-15s", PQfname(res, i));
printf("\n\n");

/* next, print out the rows */
for (i = 0; i < PQntuples(res); i++)
{
for (j = 0; j < nFields; j++)
printf("%-15s", PQgetvalue(res, i, j));
printf("\n");
}

PQclear(res);

/* close the portal ... we don't bother to check for errors ... */
res = PQexec(conn, "CLOSE myportal");
PQclear(res);

/* end the transaction */
res = PQexec(conn, "END");
PQclear(res);

/* close the connection to the database and cleanup */
PQfinish(conn);

return 0;
}