HEADS-UP: gcc-4.2 import appears to miscompile libm.

[Steve Kargl]

On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 10:53:09AM +0200, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> On Sunday 27 May 2007 01:31:16 Steve Kargl wrote:
> > On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:09:16PM -0400, Wes Morgan wrote:
> > > Working from -O towards -O2 based on the info pages, I can "reproduce"
> > > the problem with "-O -fstrict-aliasing -fgcse"... However, -O2 with
> > > -fno-strict-aliasing by itself seems to work around the issue. At first
> > > glance it looks like a possible interaction between several
> > > optimizations.
> >
> > Ths patch fixes the problem.
> >
> > --- s_frexpf.c.orig     Sat May 26 16:26:50 2007
> > +++ s_frexpf.c  Sat May 26 16:28:03 2007
> > @@ -39,6 +39,9 @@
> >         }
> >         *eptr += (ix>>23)-126;
> >         hx = (hx&0x807fffff)|0x3f000000;
> > +#if 0
> >         *(int*)&x = hx;
> > +#endif
> > +       SET_FLOAT_WORD(x,hx);
> >         return x;
> >  }
> 
> -fno-strict-aliasing is used by default for me (i386). Also, if you use -Wall 
> the compiler outputs a warning.

You apparently don't have CFLAGS set in /etc/make.conf.

> [root at something /usr/src/lib/msun/src]# cc -O2 -Wall -pipe  -c s_frexpf.c
> s_frexpf.c: In function 'frexpf':
> s_frexpf.c:42: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break 
> strict-aliasing rules

Yes, I know.

OTOH, the above patch actually fixes the problem, and libm can then
be compiled without -fno-strict-aliasing.

-- 
Steve