On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Jakub Jelinek
<jakub(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> A severe ABI bug on AArch64 and especially on ARM 32-bit has been
> recently discovered and GCC 7.1 is going to have that ABI change in.
> For details see
http://gcc.gnu.org/PR77728
> gcc-7.1.1-0.16.fc{26,27} which I'll build tomorrow will contain the
> ABI changes as well as a -Wpsabi diagnostics (note:) on code that is
> changing the ABI.
> The ABI change should affect primarily just C++ code passing PODs
By primarily is it guaranteed to be limited to C++ or is it possible
it could affect other code?
> by value where all the non-static data members and base classes are at most
> word aligned, but there are some static data members with doubleword
> or bigger alignment or there are typedefs or other nested types in
> the class/struct which are doubleword or bigger aligned, and are passed
> in certain positions in the argument list (passing them in even registers
> is fine, passing them in odd ones changes ABI, on the stack at odd positions
> might change the ABI too). For the typedefs, the broken ABI of GCC 5.2 to 7.0.1
> has been actually not even self-consitent in some templates, earlier
> instantiation vs. lack thereof could affect the ABI. GCC 5.1 and earlier
> for structs used to match earlier AAPCS version and had different rules and
> issues.
>
> Could somebody from rel-eng perform a test mass rebuild on armv7hl
> and aarch64 of F26 to determine which packages are affected by the
> ABI changes so that we could rebuild only those that actually need changing?
>
> If grepping for note: is not good enough for the test mass rebuild, I could
> hack up a test compiler that does something different when it encounters
> this (say abort if it encounters this and some special env var is set,
> or writes something into some /tmp/ file and let some brp script collect
> info from there, etc.).
>
Could this be the reason why capnproto builds fail on ARM? I've been
trying to build it for months, and it seems to just die in the build
process.
c.f.:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=18098874
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