Re: [Patch, fortran] PR80850 - Sourced allocate() fails to allocate a pointer

[Paul Richard Thomas <paul dot richard dot thomas at gmail dot com>]

Committed to 7-branch as revision 254293. I will close the PR now.

Cheers

Paul

On 30 October 2017 at 22:16, Paul Richard Thomas
<paul.richard.thomas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Andre,
>
> Committed to trunk as revision 254244.
>
> In order to debug the code, I was forced to use 7-branch for
> development since there were dependencies that detected the change in
> module number. 7-branch accepted the assignments without casts but I
> was forced to include them in trunk. As advertised the testcase just
> enforces the assignment to the _len field through a tree dump.
>
> 7-branch will come on Wednesday. Tomorrow is full of Halloween fun....
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 30 October 2017 at 13:39, Andre Vehreschild <vehre@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> whoopsie, I remember that I inserted the check for _len > 0 in allocate(). So
>> it was me causing the bug. Thanks that you found it. The patch looks good to
>> me. Thanks for the work.
>>
>> - Andre
>>
>> On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 12:20:20 +0000
>> Paul Richard Thomas <paul.richard.thomas@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> This bug took a silly amount of effort to diagnose but once done, the
>>> fix was obvious.
>>>
>>> The bug is triggered in this function from the reporter's source file
>>> gfc_graph.F90:
>>>
>>>         function GraphIterAppendVertex(this,vertex) result(ierr)
>>> !Appends a new vertex to the graph.
>>>          implicit none
>>>          integer(INTD):: ierr                               !out: error code
>>>          class(graph_iter_t), intent(inout):: this          !inout:
>>> graph iterator
>>>          class(graph_vertex_t), intent(in), target:: vertex !in: new vertex
>>>          type(vert_link_refs_t):: vlr
>>>
>>>          ierr=this%vert_it%append(vertex) !<===== right here!
>>> ....snip....
>>>          return
>>>         end function GraphIterAppendVertex
>>>
>>> 'vertex' is being passed to a class(*) dummy. As you will see from the
>>> attached patch and the ChangeLog, 'vertex' was being cast as unlimited
>>> polymorphic and assigned to the passed actual argument. This left the
>>> _len field indeterminate since it is not present in normal (limited?)
>>> polymorphic objects.
>>>
>>> Further down the way, in stsubs.F90(clone_object) an allocation is
>>> being made using the unlimited version of 'vertex as a source. Since
>>> the size passed to malloc for an unlimited source is, for  _len > 0,
>>> the value of the _len multiplied by the vtable _size, the amount of
>>> memory is also indeterminate and causes the operating system to flag a
>>> failed allocation, pretty much at random.
>>>
>>> The ChangeLog and the patch describe the fix sufficiently well as not
>>> to require further explanation. I will write a testcase that tests the
>>> tree dump for the _len field before committing the patch.
>>>
>>> Bootstraps and regtests on FC23/x86_64 - OK for 7- and 8-branches?
>>>
>>> If I do not receive any contrary comments, I will commit tonight.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>> 2017-10-30  Paul Thomas  <pault@gcc.gnu.org>
>>>
>>>     PR fortran/80850
>>>     * trans_expr.c (gfc_conv_procedure_call): When passing a class
>>>     argument to an unlimited polymorphic dummy, it is wrong to cast
>>>     the passed expression as unlimited, unless it is unlimited. The
>>>     correct way is to assign to each of the fields and set the _len
>>>     field to zero.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andre Vehreschild * Email: vehre ad gmx dot de
>
>
>
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