Re: clang 3.2 RC2 miscompiles libgcc?

From: Stefan Farfeleder <stefanf_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 17:03:32 +0100
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 03:59:59PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 2013-01-06 15:17, Stefan Farfeleder wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 04:49:41PM +0100, Stefan Farfeleder wrote:
> >> Here's a minimal test case that reproduces the bug:
> > [...]
> >
> > Until someone fixes this bug, could we apply something like this as a
> > work-around?
> >
> > Stefan
> >
> > Index: gnu/lib/libgcc/Makefile
> > ===================================================================
> > --- gnu/lib/libgcc/Makefile	(revision 245055)
> > +++ gnu/lib/libgcc/Makefile	(working copy)
> > _at__at_ -6,6 +6,8 _at__at_
> >   SHLIB_NAME=	libgcc_s.so.1
> >   SHLIBDIR?=	/lib
> >
> > +CC=	gcc
> > +
> >   .include <bsd.own.mk>
> 
> I think this is a bit overkill approach.  We still don't know what the
> exact cause of the problem is, and this just papers over it.

It seems unwise to install a known-to-be-broken libgcc by default, even
though the exact cause is not known yet.

> Also, ince the bug is only reproducible by compiling the testcase with
> g++, could you not compile your crashing programs with clang instead,
> for now?  :-)

The bug also affects ports software, e.g., I also experienced strange
rtorrent segfaults that are now gone.

Stefan
Received on Sun Jan 06 2013 - 15:03:36 UTC

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