Bug#501825: libjson-xs-perl_2.23-1(sparc/unstable): FTBFS on sparc, fails in tests
Julien Cristau
jcristau at debian.org
Wed Oct 15 21:20:39 UTC 2008
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 23:39:52 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> This is reproducible on sperger.d.o.
>
> It's an alignment problem that only shows up with an optimization level
> of at least -O2.
>
> Program received signal SIGBUS, Bus error.
> 0xf7ec1134 in decode_json (string=0x192280, json=0x39f18, offset_return=0xff85b96c) at XS.xs:1443
> 1443 SvGROW (string, SvCUR (string) + 1); // should basically be a NOP
> (gdb) bt
> #0 0xf7ec1134 in decode_json (string=0x192280, json=0x39f18, offset_return=0xff85b96c) at XS.xs:1443
> #1 0xf7ec2444 in XS_JSON__XS_incr_parse (my_perl=0x22008, cv=0x126d58) at XS.xs:1828
> #2 0xf7dfab48 in Perl_pp_entersub () from /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10
> #3 0xf7df8f9c in Perl_runops_standard () from /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10
> #4 0xf7df4298 in perl_run () from /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.10
> #5 0x00010b88 in main ()
>
> The instruction that causes the bus error is a double-word load (ldd):
>
> 0xf7ec1130 <decode_json+132>: ld [ %l1 ], %g1
> 0xf7ec1134 <decode_json+136>: ldd [ %g1 + 8 ], %g2
> 0xf7ec1138 <decode_json+140>: inc %g2
> 0xf7ec113c <decode_json+144>: cmp %g3, %g2
>
> The preprocessor output for the above SvGROW() macro invocation is
>
> (((XPV*) (string)->sv_any)->xpv_len < (((XPV*) (string)->sv_any)->xpv_cur + 1) ? Perl_sv_grow(((PerlInterpreter *)pthread_getspecific((*Perl_Gthr_key_ptr(((void *)0))))), string,((XPV*) (string)->sv_any)->xpv_cur + 1) : ((string)->sv_u.svu_pv));
>
> and the above assembly is the compiled form of the first comparison
> at -O2. The compiler is using a double-word instruction to load both
> xpv_cur and xpv_len in one go.
>
> Now, this apparently requires that ((XPV*) (string)->sv_any)->xpv_cur
> is aligned on a double-word (64-bit) boundary, which fails here:
>
[...]
>
> This suggests to me that gcc is being too aggressive on optimizing here.
> I don't see how it can consider the double word instruction safe.
>
__alignof__(XPV) is 8, so gcc is allowed to assume that any XPV is
64-bit aligned, as far as I can tell. xpv_cur's offset is 8, so it
should also be 64-bit aligned.
Cheers,
Julien
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