optimization/9794: Problem with -O2 on solaris causing variables to be overwritten
wlp@ll.mit.edu
wlp@ll.mit.edu
Fri Feb 21 21:36:00 GMT 2003
>Number: 9794
>Category: optimization
>Synopsis: Problem with -O2 on solaris causing variables to be overwritten
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: unassigned
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Feb 21 21:36:01 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Will Pughe
>Release: Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.2/specs
>Organization:
>Environment:
SunOS 5.8 Generic_108528-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
>Description:
We have a library that packs a float into a character array,
then unpacks it later. The values of the float were coming
out wrong when compiled with -O2. If a value of 999.9 is
packed in, a value of 0 comes out. This code worked on
all previous versions of g++, and works on g++3.2 for linux,
redhat 8.0.
The command line used is:
g++ -O2 prog.C -o prog -Wall
No warnings are reported. The output is
fval 999.9
fval 0
The output should be
fval 999.9
fval 999.9
>How-To-Repeat:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
static char *buf;
static char *bufPtr;
void pack( float fval )
{
// Following are volatile to prevent optimizers from reusing the
// allocated stack space for other purposes following the last
// direct reference to the address of the float value. (The g++ 3.2
// optimizer apparently gets faked out by the cast of the float address
// to an int address, and thinks the float address is free for reuse
// prior to the underlying bits actually being packed into the buffer)
// volatile float fvalTmp = fval;
// volatile int *ival = (volatile int *)&fvalTmp;
int *ival = (int *)&fval;
*bufPtr++ = (*ival >> 24) & 0xff;
*bufPtr++ = (*ival >> 16) & 0xff;
*bufPtr++ = (*ival >> 8) & 0xff;
*bufPtr++ = *ival & 0xff;
}
void unpack( float& val )
{
int ival ;
ival = *bufPtr++ << 24 ;
ival |= (*bufPtr++ << 16) & 0x00ff0000;
ival |= (*bufPtr++ << 8) & 0x0000ff00;
ival |= (*bufPtr++ & 0xff);
val = *((float *)&ival);
}
int main(int argc, char **argv )
{
buf = new char[4];
bufPtr = buf;
float fval( 999.9 );
cerr << "fval " << fval << endl;
pack( fval );
bufPtr = buf;
unpack( fval );
cerr << "fval " << fval << endl;
}
>Fix:
To fix the problem, uncomment the two volatile declarations
in the pack function, and comment out the next int
declaration.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
Configured with: ../configure --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --disable-nls
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.2
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